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Speaker 1: That and again I discuss this at length and justice corrupted?

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Speaker 1: What did what did Merrick Garland do? That special agent

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Speaker 1: was moved to DC and put in charge of the

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Speaker 1: January six prosecutions, again going after the political enemies of

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Speaker 1: the Biden White House. You do your political work well,

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Speaker 1: no matter what the outcome is we give you a promotion,

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Speaker 1: but even worse, you do your political work horribly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you demonstrate you're a partisan, even though you're an incompetent partisan,

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Speaker 1: and you lose either having the jury throughout your case

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Speaker 1: or having the Supreme Court unanimously throughout your case. That's fine.

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Speaker 1: Your job is to be a pitbull and bite. What

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Speaker 1: happens next is not your concern. That's what how this, Biden,

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Speaker 1: and we'll give you your next big keep biting. That's

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Speaker 1: the job they expect is attack, attack, attack, facts be damned,

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Speaker 1: lawb damned, and that is incredibly dangerous. Last question on

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Speaker 1: this before we move on to the spending bill. That's important,

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Speaker 1: but I think people want to know how does this

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Speaker 1: move forward now? Is it gonna be quick? What's the

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Speaker 1: timetable here? Or do they drag it out and try

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Speaker 1: to hold over Trump's head since he's decided he's going

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Speaker 1: to run president, or do they try to get him

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Speaker 1: indicted quickly and then try to actually go to a trial.

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Speaker 1: I mean, give us your guests on the playbook here

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Speaker 1: of what they're looking at. I think they want to

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Speaker 1: move quickly. When Merritt Garland appointed Smith, he said that

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Speaker 1: the appointment is not going to slow down the timetable

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Speaker 1: at all. I think that was one of the conditions

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Speaker 1: of its Smith has a reputation for being a very

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Speaker 1: aggressive prosecutor, for moving quickly. He is an attack dog.

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Speaker 1: That's why they brought him in attack. I believe we

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Speaker 1: will see Trump indicted within a year, and I think,

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Speaker 1: in all likelihood within the next six months. I think

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Speaker 1: by June of twenty twenty three, this dj will have

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Speaker 1: indicted Donald Trump. And that's all for political calendar reasons. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we exactly that that they want to go after him,

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Speaker 1: they want they hate him. It is not driven it's

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Speaker 1: not driven by facts or law that they view it. Look,

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Speaker 1: if you were a vampire hunter in the fifteenth century,

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Speaker 1: facts or law didn't matter. If you encountered a vampire,

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Speaker 1: you wanted to drive a stake into him. That's how

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Speaker 1: they view Donald Trump. And it is with the same

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Speaker 1: self righteous indignation that they're going after him and that

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Speaker 1: this is an indictment. They started with a conclusion, we're

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Speaker 1: going to indict Trump. Now they're trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: on what go Let's go figure out some basis. Who

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Speaker 1: knows they're going to figure out whatever has something because

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Speaker 1: they don't even care it sticks down the road. They

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Speaker 1: want to nail him to the wall and they'll figure

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Speaker 1: out a basis. Look, these are the same This is

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Speaker 1: the same political team that impeached Trump not once but

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Speaker 1: twice and is now suddenly discovering that the shoe is

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Speaker 1: on the other foot. Sah, I want to move to

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Speaker 1: the spending bill. That looks like Democrats are going to

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Speaker 1: try to ram through some serious spinning measures before Republicans

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Speaker 1: gain control of the House. This is something you're going

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Speaker 1: to try to do. Write before the holidays. I'm referring

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Speaker 1: to Christmas, obviously. What's going on with this bill real quick,

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Speaker 1: because people need to understand they're about spend a lot

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Speaker 1: of our money. So yeah, So there are two ways

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Speaker 1: that the federal government is funded. One is through appropriations bills.

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Speaker 1: And in an ordinary cycle, you have thirteen appropriation bills

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Speaker 1: that cover each of the different cabinet agencies and that

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Speaker 1: are passed through the ordinary regular course. Congress almost never

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Speaker 1: does that anymore. There's so much dysfunction in Congress that

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Speaker 1: regular appropriation bills don't don't move anymore. Congress doesn't do

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Speaker 1: its job. That means that instead government is funded either

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Speaker 1: with what's called an omnibus, which is grabbing a bunch

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Speaker 1: of those appropriation bills lumping them all together in one gigantic,

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Speaker 1: trillion dollar plus bill. What does omnibus means? So many

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Speaker 1: people hear this, it's a big Washington word. What does

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Speaker 1: it actually mean for people? Because I get asked it

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Speaker 1: all the time on my show, I don't know. Lots

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Speaker 1: of buses, I comnibus. I was wondering if there was

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Speaker 1: some way to that where that even came from. I

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Speaker 1: am sure there's someone that knows the etymology of it.

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Speaker 1: It means a whole lot of crap crammed into one.

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Speaker 1: It costs us a lot of money. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: they contrast that sometimes they refer to a minibus, and

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Speaker 1: a minibus is basically a smaller omnibus, and and many

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Speaker 1: is modifying. But omnibus is grabbing the appropriation bills and

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Speaker 1: all ramming him into one giant bill that you then

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Speaker 1: pass up or down, usually with no amendments whatsoever. The

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Speaker 1: other way government is funded is through what's called a

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Speaker 1: continuing resolution YEP. Now, continuing resolution is much shorter, and

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Speaker 1: it usually just continues government spending at the level it

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Speaker 1: is at currently for a fixed period of time. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you have a continuing resolution. It's usually referred to as

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Speaker 1: a c are. Yeah. Sometimes you have it for a

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Speaker 1: day or a week. Sometimes you have it for a

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Speaker 1: few months. And that's usually what happens from the third

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Speaker 1: of a government shed down, right, we see we see

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Speaker 1: it midnight on a Saturday evening. A CR that's going

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Speaker 1: to last for a week or six days or three

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Speaker 1: days whatever, so the government keeps functioning. So we are

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Speaker 1: right now in a CR. The CR expires the second

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Speaker 1: week of December. Now there's a reason that Democrats wanted

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Speaker 1: it the second week of December. They wanted at number one,

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Speaker 1: after the election when they knew what would happen. Ye.

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Speaker 1: But number two, they want it right before Christmas because

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Speaker 1: lawmakers get really fidgety before Christmas. They want to go home,

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Speaker 1: they want to be on vacation, and historically they're willing

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Speaker 1: to pass all sorts of bad crap just to get home,

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Speaker 1: to get out of town and go home for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: And so there is right now a pending and important

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Speaker 1: debate in the United States Senate. Should we pass an

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Speaker 1: omnibus in December or should we wait until next year

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Speaker 1: to take up appropriation bills. Now, I view the answer

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Speaker 1: as a no brainer. Hell no, we should not pass

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Speaker 1: a Democrat omnibus in a lame duck session. And here's why.

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Speaker 1: Why would we want to pass into law funding for

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Speaker 1: the government through September thirtieth of next year through the

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Speaker 1: end of the fiscal year with all the Democrat priorities

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Speaker 1: that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have signed off on.

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Speaker 1: When a month from now we're going to have a

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Speaker 1: Republican House of Representatives where we will have far greater

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Speaker 1: leverage to pass appropriations that reflect Republican priorities, sure, rather

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Speaker 1: than Democrat priorities. So that means we'd be you'd be

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Speaker 1: in favor basically a CR yes, until the new Congress

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Speaker 1: gets in that everybody just voted for, which obviously makes sense.

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Speaker 1: If you care about the voters, you care about what

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Speaker 1: they said and the will of the people, you would

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Speaker 1: wait until them to do it. So, and I help

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Speaker 1: lead a group of conservative senators and a handful of

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Speaker 1: us publicly urged our colleagues, let's pass a CR until

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Speaker 1: January February of next year. Wait till the new Congress

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Speaker 1: gets in and then pass an appropriations bill, either appropriation

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Speaker 1: bills or an omnibus. With a new Republican House of Representatives,

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Speaker 1: there's a big battle playing out. What is happening is

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Speaker 1: Republican leadership, and in particular Mitch McConnell, and also the

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Speaker 1: outgoing ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Richard Shelby,

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Speaker 1: who's retiring, and also the incoming ranking member the Appropriations Committee,

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Speaker 1: Susan Collins. All of them want to pass this omnibus

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Speaker 1: bill in the lame Duck. They're perfectly fine with the

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Speaker 1: priorities of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. And it is

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Speaker 1: an open question whether all it will take is ten

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Speaker 1: Republicans rolling over and agreeing with the Democrats and they'll

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Speaker 1: pass this omnibus. And a bunch of those Republicans who

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Speaker 1: are likely to roll over are retiring Republicans who are

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Speaker 1: getting ready to be FatCat lobbyists. They want all the

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Speaker 1: things in there, the pork bill spending that helps them

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Speaker 1: with the lobby and an omnibus is filled with pork

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Speaker 1: barrel spending. It's filled with I mean, it can be

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Speaker 1: a couple thousand pages. Nobody has read the thing. It

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Speaker 1: is put together but throw it in there your line

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Speaker 1: of what you want and to get your vote. Now,

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Speaker 1: let me give you a historical context, because you might say, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: what typically does one do in modern times when there

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Speaker 1: has been a change of control of Congress. No Congress

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Speaker 1: in modern times has passed an omnibus and let me

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Speaker 1: let me, let me focus on it. Since nineteen ninety four,

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Speaker 1: control of the House has changed hands in four midterm

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Speaker 1: election cycles nineteen ninety four, two thousand and six, two ten,

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Speaker 1: and two eighteen. Never before has the outgoing House majority

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Speaker 1: passed an omnibus appropriations bill during the lame duck session

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Speaker 1: following the election. Let me give you those four Let's

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Speaker 1: break it down a little bit to give some substance.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety four historic massive Republican victory. Republicans won a

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Speaker 1: majority in the House for the first time in forty years.

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Speaker 1: But the one hundred and third Congress, the Congress there

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Speaker 1: had already done its job. It had already passed the

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Speaker 1: thirteen appropriations bills before the lame duck session, so there

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Speaker 1: were no appropriations bills before it. It didn't pass any

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Speaker 1: so ninety four it didn't happen, all right, How about

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Two thousand and six, she had

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Speaker 1: a Republican president, George W. Bush, and Democrats took both chambers,

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Speaker 1: the House and Senate. Yeah, the outgoing Congress proposed eleven

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Speaker 1: appropriations bills for fiscal year two thousand and seven, just

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Speaker 1: two had been passed before the lame duck session. During

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Speaker 1: that session, what had Congress do passed two short term

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Speaker 1: continuing resolutions extending the date of appropriations through February. So

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Speaker 1: that's what happened. When Republicans were losing control to the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: They said, Okay, we can't pass our appropriations. We'd like to,

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Speaker 1: but we can't. And by the way, they had a

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Speaker 1: Republican president, so you want to talk about a very

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Speaker 1: comparable situation, And they said, let's do a cr and

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Speaker 1: let the new Congress figure it out. How about twenty ten,

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Speaker 1: another big Republican takeover. Republicans retake the House in twenty ten,

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Speaker 1: the one hundred and eleventh Congress failed to pass even

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Speaker 1: a single regular appropriations bill, so instead three continuing resolutions

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Speaker 1: were passed to extend government funding. And then finally twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: not that long ago, Democrats took control of the House

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Speaker 1: Prior to the twenty eighteen lame duck session, Congress passed

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Speaker 1: two minibus appropriations bills, so not all of them crammed together.

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Speaker 1: They contained five smaller spending bills and a continuing resolution

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Speaker 1: that was before the lame duck. During the lame duck,

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Speaker 1: lawmakers passed to continual resolution to provide funding through December

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Speaker 1: twenty first. Congress then failed to agree on another short

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Speaker 1: term continued resolution, resulting in a funding lapse, a government

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Speaker 1: shutdown until the next Congress convened. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: that was driven by the Democrats. That was the Chuck

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Speaker 1: Schumer shutdown, which of course the press didn't cover because

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Speaker 1: it was a Democrat shutdown and so that that doesn't count.

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Speaker 1: So literally, since nineteen ninety four, this has never happened,

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Speaker 1: and it comes down to the exact same question. Listen,

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Speaker 1: this uh this podcast is coming out Monday morning. Monday

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Speaker 1: at five thirty pm, we're going to have the cloture

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Speaker 1: vote on the marriage bill, and we're going to find

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Speaker 1: out today at five thirty pm whether three of the

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Speaker 1: twelve Republicans who decided to embrace gay marriage are going

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Speaker 1: to stand up for religious liberty or not. And it

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Speaker 1: will come down to if three of those twelves say

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Speaker 1: I will vote no on cloture unless Mike Lee's religious

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Speaker 1: liberty amendment is added to the bill, not given a

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Speaker 1: fake updown that it will love to be one and

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Speaker 1: the same written into the bill. We'll find out at

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Speaker 1: five thirty to day whether three of those twelve have

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Speaker 1: the courage to do that. The question on this omnibus

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Speaker 1: is the same thing. Are there forty one Republicans in

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Speaker 1: the United States Senate who say, hell no, we are

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Speaker 1: not passing a Schumer Pelosi year long appropriations bill in

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Speaker 1: the lame duck session when we're getting ready to have

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Speaker 1: a Republican House of Representatives. It ought to be that

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Speaker 1: Republican House who negotiates with sadly the Democrat Senate and

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Speaker 1: adopts appropriation bills in January or February. That's a critical issue.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you our leadership in the Senate wants

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Speaker 1: to pass the Schumer Pelosi bill, which is just a

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Speaker 1: shocking I say shocking. It's not shocking if you know

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Speaker 1: the players, but it is shocking when you just run

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Speaker 1: back the house you're even in this situation. I also

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Speaker 1: want to ask you about this you know, is there

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Speaker 1: a possibility if this gets into a fight, because this

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Speaker 1: is the new threat. You and I are both fans

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Speaker 1: of the West Wing. There's a great episode in the

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Speaker 1: West Wing about why you don't shut down the government

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Speaker 1: when they were going through a government shutdown. I remember

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Speaker 1: watching one of the characters, Josh Slime, and he's like,

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Speaker 1: you don't shut down the government, and here's why they

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Speaker 1: blame you. They'll find every person to claim they're having

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Speaker 1: the worst day of their lives. They'll put it on

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Speaker 1: TV and this is why you don't do it. And

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Speaker 1: now we see that be the threat anytime someone's like, well,

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Speaker 1: if you don't do a cr or you don't do

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Speaker 1: what we tell you we're gonna do, and you shut

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Speaker 1: down the government, right, all hell's going to break loose.

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Speaker 1: Is that now basically used every single time you guys

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Speaker 1: get to this point where it's a moment where you

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Speaker 1: must stand up with that, well, you will blame you

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Speaker 1: for shutting down the government. So it is, and we

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Speaker 1: will have subsequent podcasts that go into depth on government shutdowns,

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Speaker 1: on the history of it, what they mean, because we're

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Speaker 1: getting ready to move into a new era where that

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Speaker 1: could happen with a Republican House and a Democrat president

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Speaker 1: where we could face shutdowns in the next two years.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I've talked on this pod about how

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Speaker 1: I helped lead the leadership fight against Mitch McConnell, and

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Speaker 1: one of the central questions I said is are we

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Speaker 1: willing to use the lever of government funding to fight

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Speaker 1: for anything? And leadership was unwilling to commit to fighting

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Speaker 1: literally for anything for the next two years, which is

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Speaker 1: a big part of why people are so frustrated. What

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Speaker 1: I will say on this fight right now, will the

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Speaker 1: media characterize it as Republicans want to shut down the government? Yes,

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Speaker 1: because the media is the left wing of the Democrat Party.

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Speaker 1: They are dishonest and propagandists, so they've always characterized it

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Speaker 1: as that. The irony of Josh Lyman in the TV

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Speaker 1: show The West Wing is he was suggesting the media

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Speaker 1: would blame the Democrats for shutdown, and the corrupt corporate

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Speaker 1: media never does that. It's always the Republican fault, no

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Speaker 1: matter whether it's the Democrats or not who do it.

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Speaker 1: But here it's a simpler question because we can easily

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Speaker 1: pass a CR. Yeah, we can pass a CR and

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Speaker 1: extend funding through January February, which means the government doesn't

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Speaker 1: shut down. The only reason we wouldn't pass the CRS

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Speaker 1: if Democrats refuse to do so. If they say, nope,

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Speaker 1: give us the Pelosi Schumer funding bill, or will shut

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Speaker 1: down the government. Now, will the Biden White House and

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Speaker 1: the krupt corporate media even then say it's Republicans shutting

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Speaker 1: down the government. Yes, Will Republican leaderships say the same thing? Maybe?

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Speaker 1: One of the great ironies of these battles is Republican

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Speaker 1: leadership is often on the side of a Democrat White House.

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Speaker 1: But here the question ought to be real simple. Let's

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Speaker 1: kick the can down the road a couple of months

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Speaker 1: and let the new Congress elected by the American people

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Speaker 1: that have given Republicans the majority. Let the new Congress

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Speaker 1: decide do the spending bill for the new Congress in essence.

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Speaker 1: But by the way, what the Democrats are going to

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Speaker 1: want to do is they're gonna want to roll everything

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Speaker 1: they can in the lame Ducks. So they're gonna want

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Speaker 1: to roll not just the nominitivus spending bill, They're gonna

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Speaker 1: want to roll the debt sailing into this also, because

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Speaker 1: those are the only two levers the new Congress has.

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Speaker 1: If you want to change any policies, you either have

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Speaker 1: spending or the death ceiling, the two and only two.

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Speaker 1: So what are Schumer and Pelosi going to do. Let's

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Speaker 1: take both of those levers away and let's kick it

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Speaker 1: down as far as we can so that we render

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Speaker 1: the new incoming Republican House toothless. I get why Pelosi

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Speaker 1: wants to do that. I get why Schumer wants to

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Speaker 1: do that. I get why Biden wants to do that.

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Speaker 1: But why in the hell would the Republicans do it?

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Speaker 1: Would the Republicans do it? And so I can tell

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Speaker 1: you we've already had some really vigorous arguments in the

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Speaker 1: Senate Republican conference room, and we're going to have really

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Speaker 1: vigorous arguments over the next couple of weeks. Over Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: there was something else that happened that I think was shocking.

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Speaker 1: My phone blew up. Full disclosure. I have a family

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Speaker 1: in law enforcement on a gun store, and I started

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Speaker 1: getting text messages because Joe Biden came out and said

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Speaker 1: something about this basically lame duck session that you're about

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Speaker 1: to come back to coming after people's guns, but not

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Speaker 1: just guns that they've been talking about for years, all

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Speaker 1: now semi automatic weapons. And I want you to see

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Speaker 1: the clip from Biden and tell the American people, is

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Speaker 1: this something to worry about or not? Take a look.

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Speaker 1: The idea we still allow semi automatic weapons to be

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Speaker 1: purchased is sick. It's sick. It has no social redeeming value,

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Speaker 1: zero none, not a single solitary rational for it. It's

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Speaker 1: a profit through your gun manufacture. Can you do anything

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Speaker 1: about gun laws during the lame doctor, I'm gonna try.

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Speaker 1: What will you find it. I'm gonna try to get

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Speaker 1: rid of a saltway. I'm gonna try. That came out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere. Obviously, never let a crisis go to waste

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Speaker 1: democratic motto. Here, they see an opportunity because of the

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Speaker 1: shooting that happened, and they said, okay, let's go after

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Speaker 1: guns again. Now it's all semi automatic weapons. They even

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Speaker 1: put out a press statement from the White House. Could

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Speaker 1: this go somewhere in the lame duck? So I don't

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Speaker 1: believe it will. One of the things to understand watching

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Speaker 1: that clip, Joe Biden has no idea what he's talking about,

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Speaker 1: Like when he says there's no socially redeeming purpose behind

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Speaker 1: some automatic weapons. If you asked him what's the semi

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Speaker 1: automatic weapon, he doesn't know. Yeah, I know, it's hard.

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Speaker 1: Probably doesn't even realize he's been hunting with semi automatic shotguns,

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Speaker 1: which is a semi automatic weapon that he now says

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Speaker 1: no one should own, even though he probably has used

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Speaker 1: one of his life. In fact, it's based on the paperwork.

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Speaker 1: The gun that hunter Biden's you know ex lever threw

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Speaker 1: away his ex sister in law was a semi automatic

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Speaker 1: weapon as well. So and look that this. Folks that

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Speaker 1: listen to Verdict are smart or educated and informed, you

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Speaker 1: know what terms mean. But many of the Democrat advocates

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Speaker 1: of gun control have no idea what terms mean. Many

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Speaker 1: of the reporters and editors in the corrupt corporate media

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Speaker 1: have no idea what terms mean. So they use the

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Speaker 1: word assault weapon, which is a made up term that

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Speaker 1: essentially means scary looking weapons. It's weapons that look like

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Speaker 1: machine guns. But let's take the words semi automatic. For

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Speaker 1: someone that doesn't know anything about guns, they hear the

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Speaker 1: word automatic and they're like, well, okay, that's got to

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Speaker 1: be a machine gun, right, and it's worth just explaining

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Speaker 1: the listeners. And you guys know this, but maybe not

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Speaker 1: everyone knows this. An automatic weapon, a fully automatic weapon

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Speaker 1: is a machine gun and you hold the trigger down

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Speaker 1: and multiple bullets come out. Think Rambo spraying a machine gun.

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Speaker 1: The military uses M sixteens. They're fully automatic machine guns.

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Speaker 1: Those are weapons of war. That's a phrase the Democrats

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Speaker 1: like to use. Machine guns are weapons of war. They

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Speaker 1: have also been functionally illegal in the United States for

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Speaker 1: over eighty years. That means if you and I actually

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Speaker 1: you can buy one because you have a gun store.

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Speaker 1: You can have a very specialized permit to get a

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Speaker 1: fully automatic machine gun. And it's very hard to do,

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Speaker 1: by the way, even with our permits, even in the store,

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Speaker 1: the amount of government paperwork, and I'm not necessarily complaining,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it is still not easy. As a

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Speaker 1: practical matter, it is functionally illegal for an ordinary citizen

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Speaker 1: to own a fully automo matic machine gun. So what

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Speaker 1: a semi automatic mean? Semi automatic means and you know this, well,

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Speaker 1: you pull the trigger once a single bullet comes out.

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Speaker 1: You pull the trigger a second time, a second bullet

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Speaker 1: comes out. So for each trigger pull, another bullet is fired.

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Speaker 1: Now you can contrast that to say a revolver. A

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Speaker 1: revolver where you have to cock the hammer and then

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Speaker 1: pull the trigger, and then you cock the hammer and

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Speaker 1: pull the trigger, that's not semi automatic. There is an

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Speaker 1: additional action, or say a bolt action rifle, where you

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Speaker 1: have to cock the bolt and then fire. An enormous

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Speaker 1: percentage of firearms in the United States are semi automatic.

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Speaker 1: A great, a great many pistols, shotguns, rifles are semi automatic.

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Speaker 1: That is, when Joe Biden says there's no reason to

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Speaker 1: sell a semi automatic weapon, he's talking about banning a

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Speaker 1: vast swath of fire arms in America. The majority of

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Speaker 1: them that are bought and sold every day are semi

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Speaker 1: automatic in this country. And the one that say my

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Speaker 1: life and shooting was semi automatic. The one that was

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Speaker 1: given to my grandfather, to my dad, to me is

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Speaker 1: semi automatic. The shotgun that I use hunting, that was

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Speaker 1: given down for my family was semi automatic. This is

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Speaker 1: not some new scary weapon of war thing that they're

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Speaker 1: trying to obviously put out there. But it worries me

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Speaker 1: because even but see, the Dems are taking advantage of

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Speaker 1: people who don't know what the word semi automatic means,

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Speaker 1: and when they hear him talking about they're picturing Rambo

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Speaker 1: with a machine gun. That's what they see in the

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Speaker 1: camera in their mind because they're ignorant. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know if Biden ever knew what a semi automatic weapon is,

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Speaker 1: But today, with his diminished mental capacity, I'm confident watching

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Speaker 1: that clip, he has zero idea what he's saying. Is

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Speaker 1: there anything that listeners need to do, do they need

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Speaker 1: to call about this? Or do you think this was

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Speaker 1: him just shooting off the cuff or is this genuinely

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Speaker 1: something Democrats to try to sneak in their last minute?

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Speaker 1: So I think it's him shooting off the cuff pun intended.

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Speaker 1: I think the chances of it passing into law are

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Speaker 1: zero point zero zero percent. Might the House take it

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Speaker 1: up and pass it? Sure? I mean, look, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what the House will do on the way out,

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Speaker 1: and the Democrats might decide they want to want a

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Speaker 1: virtue signal, but to have it passed in the Senate

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Speaker 1: would take sixty votes, and even as bad as the

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Speaker 1: Republican conference is, they're not going to be sixty votes

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Speaker 1: for any sort of firearms ban. We had the battle

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Speaker 1: over the gun control bill earlier this year that some

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Speaker 1: Republicans signed up on. It didn't come remotely close to

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Speaker 1: what Biden is talking about. And I will say, let's

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Speaker 1: pause for a second and reflect on the predicate. Why

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Speaker 1: is Biden talking about this now? And the reason is,

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Speaker 1: of course, because you had this horrific shooting at the

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Speaker 1: gay night club in Colorado. Now, look, I hate murderers.

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Speaker 1: I think we need to be incredibly vigorous going after

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Speaker 1: violent criminals. I think we need to I've been leading

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Speaker 1: the fight for over a decade to vote more law

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Speaker 1: enforcement resources to getting violent criminals off the street before

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Speaker 1: they commit crimes. It is an amazing you know, this shooting,

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Speaker 1: the incident broke, and of course that it was targeting

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Speaker 1: gay and lesbian individuals at a gay nightclub. Corporate media

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Speaker 1: was in paroxisms of joy the incident broke because it

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Speaker 1: fit their narrative perfectly of targeting the LGBT community with

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Speaker 1: a mass shooting. Therefore, we should confiscate everyone's guns. And

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Speaker 1: then suddenly the narrative took a horrible wrong turn from

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Speaker 1: their perspective. Number One, we found out initially that the

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Speaker 1: mass murderer had previously threatened to blow people up, including

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Speaker 1: his own family, with a bomb, and hadn't been prosecuted.

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Speaker 1: That was kind of a wrinkle because it raised obvious

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Speaker 1: questions why didn't they lock the guy up the last

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Speaker 1: time he threatened a crime before he committed and killing

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Speaker 1: his own family, threatening yes with the bomb, blowing up

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Speaker 1: his own mother. But then the narrative came to a

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Speaker 1: screeching halt when he filed a pleading in court that

858
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 1: indicated that he identifies as non binary and uses the

859
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: pronouns they and them, And suddenly you could hear the

860
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: corporate media doing a collect it huh, what's it? Yeah,

861
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: And magically the story disappeared, gone, just totally gone, instantly,

862
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: And it is reminiscent of the horrific Christmas parade murder

863
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: in Waukeshaw, where again you had a black left wing

864
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: racist who a George Soros DA had repeatedly led out

865
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: of jail with a slap on the wrist, who drove

866
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: his red suv into a Christmas parade, murdering innocent people,

867
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: running over the dancing grannies, murdering children. And that story

868
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: was in the news for about four seconds because now, look,

869
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Speaker 1: I will say this I think the Colorado shooter ought

870
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: to be prosecuted and put to death. I believe in

871
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: capital punish you could murder, especially mass murder, you deserve

872
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: to die. See how many Democrats will say that. But

873
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:12,720
Speaker 1: I'll say this also, which is if this guy had

874
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Speaker 1: been a right wing Trump supporter wearing a MAGA hat,

875
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 1: it would still be leading the news tonight. The press

876
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:27,280
Speaker 1: would spend two months putting this guy front and center.

877
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: If he'd been the guy who allegedly attacked Jesse Smolley

878
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: until we discovered it was made up, Yeah, then the

879
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:38,800
Speaker 1: press would have gone crazy. But suddenly because the mass

880
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 1: murderer identifies as non binary, never mind, because the narrative

881
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: matters more than anything, and so they'll find another instance

882
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: to blow it up to advance their political agenda because

883
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: it's not about journalism, it's not about facts, and it's

884
00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: not about stopping crime. No, it is about their political agenda. Well,

885
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: and you'd think you've learned from the situation. If the

886
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: guy threatened to blow up his own family, maybe we

887
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: should prosecute that, Maybe we should put them into prison,

888
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: Maybe we should get the mental help, whatever it may be.

889
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: They will completely overlook all the warning signs that come.

890
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: We start seeing this happen more and more. You see

891
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: where there's multiple shooters. Now there was warning signs before,

892
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:22,280
Speaker 1: there's mug shots, before there's police interaction, before, there's serious

893
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: mental issues before and immediately every time in many of

894
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: these cities, the liberal prosecutors do not go after these people,

895
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: and they never go back and look at that first

896
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: part of the story there, which I think is the

897
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,879
Speaker 1: most frustrating for so many Americans and the victims who

898
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: are hurt in these situations. Well, and look again, in

899
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: my last book, Justice Corrupted, I have an entire chapter

900
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: that walks through the George Soros prosecutors in case after

901
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: case after case where they let violent criminals go and

902
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: they turn around and commit more violent crimes. We're in

903
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,959
Speaker 1: the city of Houston where tragically we've seen left wing

904
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 1: judges and a left wing county judge in particular, who've

905
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: advanced cashless bailpol sees that have resulted in murderers being released.

906
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: And an amazing thing, when you release murderers, they turn

907
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: around and commit more murders. And that if you want

908
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: to stop murders, mass murders, or even single murders, I'm

909
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 1: against all murders. If you want to stop them, the

910
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: answer is not to disarm law abouting citizens. It's to

911
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: go after the criminals. Lastly, Center Thanksgiving was very weird.

912
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: If you're watching the TV, it was almost like Democrats

913
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,280
Speaker 1: really didn't want you to enjoy Thanksgiving with your family.

914
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: Joy Read came out with this diet tribe basically why

915
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be enjoying Thanksgiving. And before you play it,

916
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:37,959
Speaker 1: which we're going to your second, let me just point

917
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: out on Thanksgiving, I wouldn't watch enjoy Read. I was

918
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: watching football, And let me just say, you've been in

919
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: this business two damn long. If you turn joy Read on,

920
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: you're doing something wrong. Man. I got it sent to

921
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 1: me and I was like, wow, that's interesting. This is

922
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 1: how much these people can't enjoy even a holiday. Take

923
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: a look at this. Thanksgiving, the day we gather with

924
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: friends and family to enjoy turkeys, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and

925
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: publican pie. We throw on the game, catch up on

926
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: our lives, and then discuss or quite possibly argue about

927
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Speaker 1: religion and politics. For millions of Americans, it's a day

928
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 1: of cherished traditions and as Americans, we certainly value those traditions,

929
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: but it's also important to unpack the myth of Thanksgiving.

930
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: It is a holiday riddled with historical inaccuracies, built on

931
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:27,720
Speaker 1: this myth that the Indigenous welcomed their colonizers with open

932
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: arms and ears of corn, a simplistic, fairy tale interpretation

933
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: of a sixteen twenty one encounter between Indigenous tribes and

934
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: English settlers that erases the genocide that followed. It's the

935
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: truth Republicans want banned from our textbooks, because here's the

936
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: secret they want so desperately to keep. We are a

937
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: country founded on violence. Our birth was violent. In sixteen nineteen,

938
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: a ship with more than twenty enslaved Africans landed in Virginia,

939
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: ushering in two centuries of America and slavery that left

940
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: millions in chains are dead. And when those humans and

941
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: bondage were finally free, a terrorist organization that was a

942
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: card carrying member of Polite society, the Ku Klux Klan,

943
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: picked up where the Civil War ended, using violence to

944
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:19,240
Speaker 1: maintain white supremacy. The clan and it's ilk are still active,

945
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: and as Americans, we continue to choose violence. Where do

946
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: you want to get on that clip. Look that clip

947
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:32,399
Speaker 1: is the modern American left. The hate America, and they

948
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: are devoted to lying about America. They're also hopelessly naive.

949
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 1: So her comment that America was founded on violence, alright, alright,

950
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: I got news for you. Every country in the history

951
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 1: of civilization was founded on violence. The history of mankind

952
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 1: is tragically or not tragically, a history of violence. By

953
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: the way, the Native American tribes who were here were

954
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: conquering each other and going to war with each other.

955
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: And throughout history, whether it is Europe, whether it is Africa,

956
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: whether it is Asia, you have millennia of one nation

957
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: conquering another, one tribe conquering another. That has been as

958
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: Thomas Hobbs, the great Philosopher said, the state of nature

959
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: is nasty, brutish, and short. Yeah. So one of the

960
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: things the left tries to do is to suggest that

961
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: aspects of human nature that are true about America are

962
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,800
Speaker 1: uniquely evil about America. So we were founded on violence,

963
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: unlike the utopian souls that have lived everywhere else. Secondly,

964
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,719
Speaker 1: so she immediately goes to sixteen nineteen. This is the

965
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 1: sixteen nineteen project, the incredibly revisionist history, false portrayal of

966
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: America's History that was written by The New York Times

967
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: now the sixteen nineteen Project postulates that America's history didn't

968
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: begin in seventeen seventy six with the Declaration of Independence.

969
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,239
Speaker 1: It didn't begin with the signing of the Constitution. It

970
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 1: began in six nineteen, when the first ship carrying slaves

971
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: arrived on America's soil. It also postulates that America's history

972
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 1: is irredeemably racist, and that today we are irredeemably racist.

973
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: It also claims the American Revolution was fought in order

974
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: to preserve slavery. That latter claim is so absurd that

975
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:25,720
Speaker 1: multiple very well respected historians like James McPherson, like Gordon

976
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: Wood have denounced it as ridiculous, as false. It was

977
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: so bad the New York Times was forced to issue

978
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:35,919
Speaker 1: a correction because it was indefensibly false. What the left

979
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: doesn't tell you listen, was slavery horrific. Yes, slavery is

980
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: the original sin of the United States of America. Did

981
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: indescribable murders and tortures occur under slavery? Yes? What the

982
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: left doesn't tell you is America is not unique in slavery.

983
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: In fact, most societies Throughout history, slavery has been a

984
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: significant component of it, whether in Europe, whether or not Africa,

985
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: whether in Asia. Slavery has been consistent for millennia. What

986
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 1: is unique about America's not slavery, Tragically, that's been much

987
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: of human existence. What's unique about America's emancipations? What's unique

988
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: about America's that we rode into our founding documents the

989
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence says we hold these truths to be

990
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: self evidence that all men are created equal. That was

991
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: you want to talk about a radically revolutionary statement, all men,

992
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:33,720
Speaker 1: not just some, not just based on race. Those documents that,

993
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: in turn those principles, and of course the Declaration goes

994
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: on to say that are endowed by their creator with

995
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 1: certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty in

996
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 1: the pursuit of happiness. Those principles became the basis for

997
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 1: the abolitionists, became the basis for incredible patriots like Frederick Douglas,

998
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 1: who argued slavery was fundamentally incompatible with American values, and

999
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: became the basis later for the civil rights movement. What

1000
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: she also doesn't say she talks about the Ku Klux Klan.

1001
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 1: You know what she doesn't mention. There was a Democratic

1002
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: party that was the Party of the Kla Klan. The

1003
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:14,720
Speaker 1: Klan was founded by Democrats, populated by Democrats. Nathan Bedford, forres,

1004
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: the founder of the Klan, was a delegate to the

1005
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty National Democrat Convention. If you look at Klansman,

1006
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: by the way, fast forward to Jim Crow Laws. Jim

1007
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: Crow Laws, almost every single one of them was written

1008
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 1: by a Democrat politician in order to prevent the voters

1009
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 1: from voting Democrat politicians out of power. And by the way,

1010
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: Joy Reid would say, well that was that. That was

1011
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: long ago, not today. Well, let's go today. The governor

1012
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: of Virginia just over a year ago, and a guy

1013
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: named Ralph Northam chose to have a picture in his

1014
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 1: yearbook of a man dress as a klansman and a

1015
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 1: man in blackface, and he said he could have been

1016
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: one of those two, meaning it could have been the klansman.

1017
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: That was the Democrat governor of Virginia just over a

1018
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: year ago. How about today the sitting President of the

1019
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: United States, Joe Biden, the guy who doesn't know what

1020
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: day it is, Joe Biden, just over a decade Ago

1021
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: gave the eulogy of Robert Byrd, a grand cyclops of

1022
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: the ku Klux Klan, had been the Senate Democratic leader

1023
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: in the Senate. He described him as a great friend

1024
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: and mentor and even implied that America might be able

1025
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:26,439
Speaker 1: to different if you want to become president, Joe Biden, Look,

1026
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:30,479
Speaker 1: I gotta say, if you can't stand up and say,

1027
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: I've never given a eulogy at the funeral of a klansman, Yeah,

1028
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: maybe I ought to be a little more cautious about

1029
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 1: giving hectoring race lectures. But Joy Reid doesn't tell any

1030
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: of that. Instead, she wants to advance the false and

1031
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 1: pernicious lie attacking America. And to be clear, look, were

1032
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: atrocities committed against Native Americans? Yes, that is part of

1033
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: our history, she claims. Republicans want to erase that history. Now, Yeah,

1034
00:58:56,480 --> 00:59:00,160
Speaker 1: not true. We tell the full history, just not the

1035
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: partisan slant that says America is evil and uniquely evil.

1036
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 1: And the answer is to become a communist society, which

1037
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: is what these advocates of the sixteen nineteen project and

1038
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 1: what these advocates of critical race theory, they are Marxists.

1039
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: They advocate communism, that is their solution to this. And

1040
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:22,919
Speaker 1: so the reason joy Read and other leftists hates Thanksgiving

1041
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: is the same reason that they hate Columbus Day. It's

1042
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: because they hate America and they believe fundamentally the founding

1043
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 1: of the United States of America was an evil act

1044
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: and we are an evil country. I think that is

1045
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: perniciously false. And I believe the United States of America

1046
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: has done more good than any nation in the history

1047
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 1: of the world. And we have is that glorious history

1048
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 1: to be proud of. And I will point out the

1049
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 1: party that you and I are members of, the Republican Party,

1050
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: was founded to end slavery. We were founded in opposition

1051
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: of slavery. The first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, was elected

1052
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: and signed the Emancipation Clamation. And so it is a

1053
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:07,320
Speaker 1: dishonest history if you only paint America as bad. But

1054
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: that's what leftist do. The other part that was hilarious

1055
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 1: is I was looking at the White House and their

1056
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: Twitter feed and I'm like, well, maybe joy Red took

1057
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: over the Twitter feed. Is part of her thanksgiving to

1058
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: the White House. I don't know, but if look at

1059
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: this tweet, and I love it because you can see

1060
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: right at the bottom is obviously scheduled nine am perfectly.

1061
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: Native American roots are deeply embedded in this land. The

1062
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: Native American the Heritage Day, we honor the enduring cultures

1063
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: and contributions of all Native Americans and recommit ourselves to

1064
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: fulfilling our nation's promise of equal dignity and respect for all.

1065
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that, but it's like, can we just

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Speaker 1: have a normal Thanksgiving and just enjoy our time with

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Speaker 1: our family? Are do you have to, like somehow in

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Speaker 1: essence remind everybody how bad America is. That's what they're

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Speaker 1: trying to do here. Well, it is and it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: So apparently all right, so leftists have renamed Columbus Day

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Speaker 1: as Indigenous people, Yes, because the heroism Christopher Columbus and

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Speaker 1: discovering the New World cannot be celebrated in their world. Now,

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Speaker 1: apparently this is new to me that they're not allowed

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Speaker 1: to call it Thanksgiving, that they've renamed Thanksgiving Native American

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Speaker 1: Heritage Day. And look, I get the White House seal

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Speaker 1: right there. So it's not a joe. Look, I think

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Speaker 1: Native American heritage is wonderful, should be studied, should be celebrated.

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Speaker 1: It's part of the history of this country, A very

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Speaker 1: important part of the history of this country. But so's thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: Damn it. Yeah, But like the effort at renaming is

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Speaker 1: because they're embarrassed. And I want to give a contrast.

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Speaker 1: When our nation started, George Washington on October third, seventeen

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Speaker 1: eighty nine issued a proclamation, And if you will indulge me,

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Speaker 1: it's not very long. I want to read Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation,

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Speaker 1: New York, three October seventeen eighty nine, by the President

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Speaker 1: of the United States of America. A proclamation whereas it

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Speaker 1: is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence

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Speaker 1: of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful

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Speaker 1: for his benefits, and to humbly implore his protection and favor.

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Speaker 1: And whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee,

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Speaker 1: requested me to recommend to the people of the United

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Speaker 1: States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be

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Speaker 1: observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors

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Speaker 1: of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably

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Speaker 1: to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now, therefore,

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Speaker 1: I do recommend an assign Thursday, the twenty sixth day

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Speaker 1: of November next to be devoted by the people of

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Speaker 1: these states to the service of that great and glorious

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Speaker 1: being who is the beneficent author of all the good

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Speaker 1: that was, that is, or that will be. That we

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Speaker 1: may then all unite in rendering unto Him our seer

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Speaker 1: and humble thanks for his kind care and protection of

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Speaker 1: the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation,

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Speaker 1: for the single and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions

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Speaker 1: of His providence which we experienced in the course and

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Speaker 1: conclusion of the late War, for the great degree of tranquility, union,

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Speaker 1: and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable

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Speaker 1: and rational manner in which we have enabled to establish

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Speaker 1: constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly

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Speaker 1: the national one now lately instituted, for the civil and

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Speaker 1: religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means

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Speaker 1: we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge, And in general,

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Speaker 1: for all the great and various favors which He hath

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Speaker 1: been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we

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Speaker 1: may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and

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Speaker 1: supplications to the Great Lord and Ruler of nations, and

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Speaker 1: beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions. To

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Speaker 1: enable us, all, whether in public or private stations, to

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Speaker 1: perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually. To

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Speaker 1: render our national government a blessing to all people, by

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Speaker 1: constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws,

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Speaker 1: discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, To protect and guide

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Speaker 1: all sovereigns and nations, especially such as it have shown

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Speaker 1: kindness onto us, and to bless them with good government,

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Speaker 1: peace and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of

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Speaker 1: true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among

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Speaker 1: them and us, And generally, to grant un demand kind

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Speaker 1: such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows

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Speaker 1: to be best given under my hand. At the City

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Speaker 1: of New York, the third day of October, in the

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Speaker 1: year of Our Lord, seventeen eighty nine. George Washington. History matters,

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Speaker 1: History matters. Can you imagine one sentence of this being

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Speaker 1: uttered by the current President of the United States. This

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Speaker 1: is a nation worth defending, And you know what it's

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Speaker 1: not just Washington and knew that it's not just listeners

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Speaker 1: to this podcast, it's millions of Americans across this country.

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Speaker 1: And I got to say, there was a video you

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Speaker 1: sent me on Thanksgiving. You texted it to me, and

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Speaker 1: it warmed my heart. I turned around and I texted

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Speaker 1: it to my entire family and I said, watch this.

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Speaker 1: It is beautiful, and ultimately I tweeted it out to

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Speaker 1: the world. But but I want to close this post

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Verdict with just watching a video of of one

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Speaker 1: American who still knows what is beautiful about this nation

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Speaker 1: and still loves it. Can we play this video? Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, maybe look at the Texas It's all okay saying,

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Speaker 1: which everybody, I'd tell you what when I send that

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Speaker 1: to you. It was one of the coolest videos. I

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Speaker 1: rarely get choked up, but I watched that and to

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Speaker 1: see that man talk about Cuba, talk about communism, talking

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Speaker 1: about fedow Castro, and talk about this the first paycheck,

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Speaker 1: as he put it, where every hour counted, it makes

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Speaker 1: you not take this country for granted. And I love

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Speaker 1: that moment because it was It made me. It reminded

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Speaker 1: me of what how thankful I need to be to

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Speaker 1: live in the greatest country in the world. It is

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Speaker 1: utterly beautiful. Uh. It brought tears to my eyes on Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: It brings tears to my eyes now. And I just

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Speaker 1: want to say to everyone, God bless America. I hope

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Speaker 1: you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and Merry Christmas to all.

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Speaker 1: This is verdict.