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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 3: Last night, President Trump posted over one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 3: times on Truth's social averaging more than one post a minute. Well,

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Speaker 3: I think we know where Venezuela's cocaine has been going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not it, obviously, But what was it?

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Speaker 4: One hundred and fifty eight tweets or truths or whatever

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Speaker 4: they call them in two and a half hours or

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Speaker 4: something like that.

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Speaker 5: That's stream of consciousness, top of the head communication with

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Speaker 5: the American people. I like that better than Biden. But

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Speaker 5: maybe there's an in between. Yeah, that's interesting. How about

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Speaker 5: you you know the whole right it, then sleep on it,

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Speaker 5: and if it's still a good idea, send it tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: How about we just go with five minutes.

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Speaker 4: Well, the guy doesn't sleep much, so he's up late

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Speaker 4: and he just starts sending out thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 5: So, here's the report from the utterly dishonest mainstream media.

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Speaker 6: The president is increasingly going after Somali immigrants, and now

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Speaker 6: sources tell us that ICE is preparing for a surge

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Speaker 6: operation in Minneapolis, which has a large Somali population. But

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Speaker 6: the mayor of Minneapolis says President Trump is wrong and

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Speaker 6: that these immigrants have only greatly improved their community.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's funny.

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Speaker 5: The President in the next clip has a contrasting point

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Speaker 7: We're going to go the wrong way if we keep

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Speaker 7: taking in garbage into our country. Elan Omar is garbage.

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Speaker 7: She is garbage, Her friends are garbage. These are people

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Speaker 7: that work. These are people that say, let's go, come on,

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Speaker 7: let's make this place great.

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Speaker 2: People that do nothing but complain.

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Speaker 7: But when they come from hell and they complain and

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Speaker 7: do nothing but bitch, we don't want them in our contract.

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Speaker 4: Now, let me get back to the mayor before you

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Speaker 4: talk about the president. So the mayor is saying they've

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Speaker 4: been nothing but.

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Speaker 2: A positive for our community.

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Speaker 4: You gotta quit trying to sell that to people. It

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Speaker 4: doesn't work unless you're just so far down the road

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Speaker 4: of diversity and believing that's important.

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Speaker 2: Because you got to lie to yourself.

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Speaker 4: If you import a bunch of poor people who don't

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Speaker 4: speak English into your neighborhood, that is not going to

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Speaker 4: immediately make your neighborhood better.

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Speaker 2: It's impossible. It's impossible. It's impossible that you bring in.

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Speaker 4: A bunch of poor people who don't speak your language

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Speaker 4: or all your culture and it makes your neighborhood better. Now,

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Speaker 4: you can make the argument that over time, with assimilation

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Speaker 4: and bringing in new ideas, it makes our nation stronger.

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Speaker 2: You can try to sell me on that, but you

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Speaker 2: can't possible claim.

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Speaker 4: That if you dump a bunch of poor people who

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Speaker 4: don't speak English in my neighborhood, that my neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: Just got better. That's a lie. That's a freaking lie.

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Speaker 5: Two thoughts Number one, what if those people have a culture,

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Speaker 5: indeed a religion that is openly hostile to your culture,

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Speaker 5: and also come from a country where ripping off government

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Speaker 5: programs is the way everybody gets by. You don't think

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Speaker 5: there's a hazard there. That's absurd. That's saying the pro

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Speaker 5: the pro.

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Speaker 4: You know, a large scale immigration crowd needs to crap.

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Speaker 2: You need to try to sell it long term or whatever.

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Speaker 4: Don't pretend that my neighborhood changing into something different overnight.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's what we were all thinking at the.

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Speaker 4: Backyard barbecue the other night. I wish we all moved here,

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Speaker 4: but we wish this neighborhood would change completely. Different music,

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Speaker 4: different food, different language. We just love it if it

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Speaker 4: changed completely, That's why we live here. For it to

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Speaker 4: change into something else, but doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 5: I know, It's just it's a lie second thought, and

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Speaker 5: I'm jumping the gun a little bit. Because Jason Riley

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Speaker 5: has a great piece about this in the Journal. Various

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Speaker 5: politicians have been quoted as saying, you can't win Minneapolis

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Speaker 5: unless you have the Somali vote.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you can't win it.

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Speaker 5: And you can't win Minnesota unless you have Minneapolis.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 5: So goes the power of ethnic urban politics. So what

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Speaker 5: spawned all this? Well, after really years, the mainstream media

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Speaker 5: has decided and others, even the conservative media have decided

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Speaker 5: the story of the massive ongoing fraud and theft from

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Speaker 5: the taxpayers of America in Minnesota, in particular by a

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Speaker 5: bunch of criminals in the Somali the Minneapolis's tightly knit

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Speaker 5: Somali diaspar community is worth talking about. The nation finally

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Speaker 5: awakening to an ongoing scandal of massive proportions where state

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Speaker 5: taxpayers have had somewhere north of one billion dollars stolen

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Speaker 5: from them by constrength as concentric rings of welfare fraudsters

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Speaker 5: based in and around Minneapolis's Somali community, and there's all

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Speaker 5: sorts of significance to this story. They note in the

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Speaker 5: National Review the depth of the fraud and how long

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Speaker 5: it was ignored by the media at large. In September

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Speaker 5: of twenty two, the federal government began to indict multiple

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Speaker 5: sets of Minneapolis area Somali Americans on charges of the

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Speaker 5: defrauding Minnesota welfare and public assistance programs. First came the

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Speaker 5: Feeding Our Future scandal, where so far seventy five defendants

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Speaker 5: associated with the Somali charitable organization allegedly chose to feed

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Speaker 5: on the sudden flood of COVID money available to anyone

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Speaker 5: who could even vaguely claim a good cause.

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Speaker 2: Feeding Our Future hoovered up millions.

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Speaker 5: Of dollars of COVID funding with the promise of providing

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Speaker 5: school lunches to disadvantage children in the Twin Cities Somali community.

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Speaker 5: Well to their credit, the FBI back in twenty twenty

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Speaker 5: two rated their fake meal locations, and the federal indictments

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Speaker 5: have been piling up ever since. But that turns out

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Speaker 5: to be only one of multiple government fraud schemes emerging

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Speaker 5: from the Twin City Somali community during.

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Speaker 2: The COVID era.

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Speaker 5: September eighteenth of this year, federal prosecutors also dropped the

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Speaker 5: first in a wave of indictments against eight defendants for

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Speaker 5: defrauding the state's housing stabilization program to the tunes of

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Speaker 5: hundreds of millions of dollars. Hundreds of millions. Yeah, and

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Speaker 5: there's much more that they're working to untangle.

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Speaker 2: This is just these are.

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Speaker 5: The investigations that are done, and they're ready to prosecute.

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Speaker 5: They note in the National Review appropriately that the scandal

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Speaker 5: has finally been dignified over the weekend with a New

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Speaker 5: York Times investigative article that calls out Tim Waltz that

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Speaker 5: useless embarrassment for his responsibility for coach Walls.

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Speaker 2: I know, yeah, I know, he's changing his carburetor. He's

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Speaker 2: going to teach men how to be masculine. I'm a

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Speaker 2: knucklehead sometimes and I'm a ninyhead eight times.

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Speaker 5: So the New York Times has given Progressive America permission

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Speaker 5: to notice the matter, although that article, which I read,

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Speaker 5: was full of Republicans pounds as verbiage, which is utterly unnecessary,

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Speaker 5: lent as a career prosecutor. The federal lead on the

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Speaker 5: case says, fraud crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It's

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Speaker 5: the result of widespread failure, of course, across nearly every

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Speaker 5: level of leadership in Minnesota. You know, we could get

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Speaker 5: into that, but the unpleasant reality is that we imported

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Speaker 5: an element of Somalia's culture of criminality, and for no

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Speaker 5: good reason. While bogus charges a racism, we're used to

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Speaker 5: keep suspicious authorities from following up on the blatant signs

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Speaker 5: that something was a miss.

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Speaker 2: And there was a heap blow to that.

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Speaker 5: Every time somebody would look into this, they were accused

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Speaker 5: of races them. So the scandal raises the question what

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Speaker 5: does America owe to those who seek to immigrate here.

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Speaker 5: Surely we as the nation are not commanded to accept

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Speaker 5: an in an endless influx of people from third world

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Speaker 5: countries with cultures opposite, inimical to American values, merely because

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Speaker 5: they have the status of quote unquote refugees. What cases

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Speaker 5: there to be made for admitting them in numbers large

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Speaker 5: enough to recreate the cultural pathologies they escaped only in

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Speaker 5: miniature well, and then own the politics of a state

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Speaker 5: that was just illustrating skipping ahead. Here's another angle of

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Speaker 5: it headline from Fox News, ABC, NBC, and CBS. Evening

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Speaker 5: newscasts ignore widening Minnesota fraud case on Tim Waltz's watch.

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Speaker 5: Fox News was on it, of course last night, but

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Speaker 5: the Alphabet networks pretended it didn't happen. Unbelievable. Moving along

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Speaker 5: to Jason Riley's piece, which I think is well worth highlighting,

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Speaker 5: and he talks about how the Manhattan Institute and what

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Speaker 5: is the other I'll think of the other publication that's

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Speaker 5: been doing good reporting on this, because they deserve the credit.

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Speaker 5: But last month the City Journal published an investigative report

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Speaker 5: by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Ruffo about COVID related fraud.

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Speaker 2: In the Somali thing. What we've been talking about.

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Speaker 5: Instead of instead of them using the money to provide

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Speaker 5: housing or medicase services, all the stuff they owned, quote,

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Speaker 5: the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase

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Speaker 5: luxury vehicles, and by real estate, including in foreign countries.

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Speaker 5: According to The New York Times, Minnesota's fraud scandal stood

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Speaker 5: out even in the context of rampant theft during the pandemic,

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Speaker 5: when Americans well and foreigners that's interesting that the New

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Speaker 5: York Times would say just Americans stole tens of billions

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Speaker 5: of dollars to unemployment benefits, business loans and other forms

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Speaker 5: of made et cetera, et cetera. Here's the quote, even Bath,

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Speaker 5: it happens, you know, to the point that that was

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Speaker 5: a you know, plenty of born here in this country.

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Speaker 2: People were ripping off a lot of that COVID money.

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Speaker 4: That happens when you start throwing out trillions of dollars,

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Speaker 4: all kinds of people are going to be stealing it.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and everybody at every level of government knew

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Speaker 5: that they were squandering your tax dollars, but wanted to

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Speaker 5: buy an inflated hot economy to save their own skins.

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Speaker 5: So here's a couple of key quotes. Former state senator

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Speaker 5: told Thorpe and Rufo quote, the media does not want

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Speaker 5: to put a light on this. And if you're a politician,

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Speaker 5: it's a significant disadvantage for you to alienate the Somali community.

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Speaker 5: If you don't win the Somalik community, you can't win Minniceapolis.

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Speaker 5: And if you don't win Minneapolis, you can't win the state.

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Speaker 5: In a follow up, Rufo wrote that critics on the

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Speaker 5: left were accusing him and as co author of racist reporting. God,

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Speaker 5: we've got to just ignore that completely, all of us.

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Speaker 5: Apparently no one is supposed to notice that Minnesota's welfare

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Speaker 5: fraud was heavily concentrated among people who are relatively new

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Speaker 5: to the country and share ethnic identity, writes Jason Riley.

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Speaker 5: Rufo says, quote, and this, you know what, I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: get this tattooed on me. I'm finally gonna get a tattoo.

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Speaker 2: A description of.

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Speaker 5: The facts should not be measured as racist or not racist,

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Speaker 4: Quick things to get back into Joe explaining how people

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Speaker 4: what's wrong with my voice? I don't know, a number

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Speaker 4: And thirdly, the way the media takes on stories like

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Speaker 4: Have they done any stories on what to know about

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Speaker 2: Behind the ball the other night of Monday Night football?

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Speaker 7: Oh my god, Oh my god, what the is that

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Speaker 2: Into the middle of it. That's you know, that's not

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Speaker 1: A line of police cars blocking the road and a

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Speaker 4: That ain't good, But for whatever reason, the mainstream media

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Speaker 4: I did the first time the other day, tried to

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Speaker 2: I hate it. I hate it a lot.

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Speaker 4: I don't think there's a chance in hell that my

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Speaker 2: It's number one.

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Speaker 4: the time he's twenty five, he will no longer be

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Speaker 4: able to drive a car.

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Speaker 2: He can't wait.

442
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Speaker 5: And the resultant never ending government tracking of our whereabouts, right,

443
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Speaker 5: I mean, that's going to be part of it.

444
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Speaker 4: You'll never go anywhere ever again where it's not tracked.

445
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Speaker 4: It's practically that way now because we carry phones in our.

446
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Speaker 5: Pockets, right, There will be a certain percentage of US

447
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Speaker 5: lone wolfs.

448
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Speaker 2: Who wolves?

449
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Speaker 5: Who will you know, disable tracking devices and break the

450
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Speaker 5: motor laws to quote a great rush song.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but no, I don't see any flaw on your logic.

452
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Speaker 4: No, be Uh the SAFETYSM combined with the insurance companies

453
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Speaker 4: and the lawyers, I mean, how how you're going to

454
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Speaker 4: get around that. It's it's going to be a situation

455
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Speaker 4: where the insurance would just be so expensive, right that

456
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Speaker 4: you just can't afford to drive. And then at some

457
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Speaker 4: point they'll probably just flat out law it well.

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Speaker 5: Right because you know, the insurance would be expensive because

459
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Speaker 5: the pool of the risk pool would get very very small,

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Speaker 5: because only a certain number of people would be the

461
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Speaker 5: lone wolfists. Uh.

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Speaker 4: Well, and when the technology gets practically perfect, and as

463
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Speaker 4: if you heard these waymost stats, it's really good already

464
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Speaker 4: you can understand the insurance company's argument. You can be

465
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Speaker 4: throw in you can get a little so you can

466
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Speaker 4: get a little loving d'uring your your drive there, or

467
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Speaker 4: watch your favorite movie.

468
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 2: Maybe you watch you know, a full.

469
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Speaker 5: Metal jacket in four parts as you go back and

470
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Speaker 5: forth to work or whatever.

471
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Speaker 2: You know, they could sweeten the pot a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Well, and I've got a factor in the fact that

473
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Speaker 4: I'm an outlier. Apparently every single human I talked to

474
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Speaker 4: as I was driving across the country, I told him

475
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Speaker 4: what I had doing it.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, why don't you fly? I just want

477
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Speaker 2: to get there?

478
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Speaker 4: Nobody likes driving like I do, so I'm I have

479
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Speaker 4: reaped to realize I'm an outlier. Most people hate the

480
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Speaker 4: idea of driving, so they're gonna willingly give up being

481
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Speaker 4: able to get out.

482
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Speaker 2: On the open road and go wherever the hell they want,

483
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Speaker 2: whenever they want.

484
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Speaker 5: Well, I've got to steal man the other side's argument.

485
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Speaker 5: After I do that, I'm gonna run its steel ass down.

486
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Speaker 5: But here's what if. What if chain saws killed thirty

487
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Speaker 5: nine thousand Americans every year? Now, granted, chainsaws aren't nearly

488
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Speaker 5: as necessary, but let me just go with it.

489
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Speaker 2: Maybe we can work on the metaphor as we go.

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Speaker 5: So chainsaws kill thirty nine thousand people here, and they

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Speaker 5: come up with an automated chainsaw that you put.

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Speaker 2: The tree or whatever the log in there, and the.

493
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Speaker 5: Chainsaw just it does a real nice cut, and you

494
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Speaker 5: can stand back with your goggles and watch you do it.

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Speaker 2: It's zero risk to yourself chaincea.

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Speaker 5: Would they still sell the regular old chainsaw? Which could

497
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Speaker 5: you even buy them?

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Speaker 4: I don't think you're even steel manning it as well

499
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Speaker 4: as you can, because that's just me taking the risk.

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Speaker 4: How about if chainsaws killed your neighbors? You using a

501
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Speaker 4: chainsaw killed your neighbors, you know, tens of thousands of

502
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Speaker 4: times a year when they're just minding their own business.

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Speaker 4: Because that's why carrecks are. Other people driving poorly can

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Speaker 4: kill me.

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Speaker 5: Now, don't get all pissed off and back over me

506
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Speaker 5: with your weird looking true fuck, what if you're just

507
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 5: wrong on this one? There are so many advantages. It's

508
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 5: clearly a good idea. Now I can't say that without

509
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 5: getting a sick feeling in my stomach, because every step

510
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Speaker 5: away from liberty I think in this country is a

511
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Speaker 5: bad one.

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Speaker 4: I think I am literally wrong. That's why it's going

513
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Speaker 4: to happen. But I still don't like it. I still

514
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Speaker 4: don't like it at all. I much prefer the idea.

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Speaker 4: I will willingly the rest of my life drive out

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Speaker 4: on the roads knowing that about forty thousand people a

517
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Speaker 4: year die sometimes it's not your fault, and still drive

518
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Speaker 4: around this country and love it with that risk, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: But it's gonna get taken away from us. It just is. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I feel like a guy whose family is constantly being

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522
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Speaker 5: I don't want to give up more liberty, even if

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Speaker 5: it's a good idea.

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Speaker 2: Just the idea sickens me. Get it go ahead?

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Speaker 4: I know I've said this before, but it wasn't very

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Speaker 4: many years ago. I'm old, but I'm not like one

551
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty. It wasn't very many years ago. And

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00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 4: I like to go on road trips. I'd go on

553
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 4: a road trip and there wouldn't anybody in the country

554
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 4: knew where I was. I mean nobody, and it would

555
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 4: been impossible to know I'm in Montana in some hotel

556
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Speaker 4: that I paid cash for. You know, I was paying

557
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Speaker 4: cash at the gas stations. I mean, there's no record

558
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Speaker 4: of where I am at all, right, And I think

559
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 4: that's fantastic, but I can't really nail down.

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00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 2: Why.

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Speaker 4: I just like the freedom of I'm doing whatever the

562
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 4: hell I want and nobody's keeping track of it. Now

563
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 4: that is completely gone. Everything has to be on a

564
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 4: credit card, so the credit card companies know you're carrying

565
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 4: your phone. Everybody knows the location, and soon it will

566
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 4: be the thing will be driving you. And there's a

567
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Speaker 4: map that I'm sure the government will have access to

568
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 4: of everywhere you go, cameras on you, every building you

569
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Speaker 4: walk into. That can't possibly be a good thing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think I've come up with my

571
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 5: stance on this because what you just described, the change

572
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 5: has made it vastly more difficult to be a serial killer.

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Speaker 5: There has been a huge drop in serial killings.

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Speaker 2: In the United States.

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Speaker 5: And so those of you who, in the interest of

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Speaker 5: safety and law and order want to push things further

577
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 5: in that direction. I understand that you're not entirely wrong.

578
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 5: You keep pushing for that. I'm going to keep pushing

579
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 5: for liberty just because you only have so much time

580
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Speaker 5: on earth. I'm going to make that my cause, and

581
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Speaker 5: I'm going to try to counterbalance your worst do good

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Speaker 5: or impulses.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying you're always wrong.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying if we let you people run rough shot,

585
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 5: we will go even further down the road of becoming

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Speaker 5: a nation of veal calves, well, a nation of Mandarin

587
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 5: speaking field calves. Because the hard asses of the world

588
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 5: aren't going to say leave them alone. They're soft and

589
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 5: they have lots of resources, so don't be mean to them.

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00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 2: Please.

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Speaker 4: Before we take a break, what would be your guess

592
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Speaker 4: how many more years we have the freedom to drive.

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00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 5: The moment the technology is although it's very close to

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Speaker 5: being good enough, very very quickly after there's a general

595
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 5: consensus that it's safe and effective the technology.

596
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 2: So do you think it's single digit years or decade

597
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 2: or more from now? Less than a decade?

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00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 4: I don't bet it is, too boy, that's bad news.

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00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 4: If you're a young man looking forward to drive, like.

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Speaker 5: My son, well, either listen to these incredibly important and

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Speaker 5: Red Barchetta, and enjoy it during the commercial break a

603
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 5: great libertarian anthem, Okay, we got.

604
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Speaker 2: More on the way stair, We'll get this.

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Speaker 3: Today YouTube released their first ever recap, which is a

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Speaker 3: shareable highlight reel of your years watch history.

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Speaker 2: In other words, blackmail. Yeah, now, your.

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Speaker 3: Friend, continue a reel of all the videos you didn't

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Speaker 3: watch the first time he sent them to you.

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Speaker 2: You gotta love. This was great. You gotta watch guys.

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Speaker 2: Know the trampoline you gonna forget.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: The best thing about Fallon is is he seems to

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Speaker 5: have a a good heart, a positive spirit. As he

615
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 5: does as humor. He's not superior and hateful like a Kimmel.

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Speaker 4: Or Jerry Seinfeld says, Jimmy Sallen is the most normal

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Speaker 4: person in all of show business.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I believe it seems like a fine bloke. Speaking

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Speaker 5: of fine blokes, he's the president of the United States.

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Speaker 2: Then we're gonna start doing those strenks on land too.

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Speaker 2: You know, the land is much easier.

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Speaker 7: It's much easier, and we know the routes you take,

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Speaker 7: We know everything about we know where they live, we

624
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Speaker 7: know where.

625
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Speaker 2: The bad ones live, and we're going to shut that

626
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Speaker 2: very soon too.

627
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Speaker 5: Trump talking about the powers that be in Venezuela and

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Speaker 5: the drug cartels and whatever we're up to there, which

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Speaker 5: again I think is just establishing that this is our

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Speaker 5: neighborhood and there are going to be no more Narco

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Speaker 5: states unfriendly the United states, We're.

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Speaker 4: Not We're going to start rockets hitting people on land

633
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Speaker 4: in Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps this is not a bluff per se.

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Speaker 5: I think that Trump is saying, look, you're going to

636
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Speaker 5: make a deal with us, or we're going to blow

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Speaker 5: you to smitherings. Anyway, on the boat, the double tap

638
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 5: controversy got this note from Joe the Marine. He says,

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Speaker 5: good morning, gents. I've been biting my tongue over this

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Speaker 5: boat thing for a couple of days. But Mike Lions

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Speaker 5: commentary yesterday on the show Grab It By Podcast, if

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Speaker 5: you missed it, hit the nail on the head. This

643
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Speaker 5: is a political scheme that's akin to the strife we

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Speaker 5: had in the Vietnam War and creates huge issues within

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Speaker 5: the services. The only thing he didn't address that I

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Speaker 5: would is that we need clarity for the context. As

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Speaker 5: Mike Clients said, people seem to think this is Leonardo

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Speaker 5: DiCaprio trying to fit on the floating door outside the

649
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Speaker 5: sinking Titanic. While a hell fire missile is a precision weapon,

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Speaker 5: it's not precise enough to strike a person floating in

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Speaker 5: the water. Having run controls on several it would get close.

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Speaker 5: But anything that is not the person. It would splash

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Speaker 5: into the water and probably never even set off the warhead.

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Speaker 5: It needs a decent sized target, a vehicle, at tank,

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Speaker 5: a building. I haven't seen the videos, but from a

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Speaker 5: weaponearing perspective, there's almost certainly a boat still floating, which

657
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Speaker 5: if the mission is to destroy it, then it would

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Speaker 5: require a reattack. This is political banter of the worst kind.

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Speaker 5: Military operates within the law, but fog of war is

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Speaker 5: real and split seconds. Decisions are made by people with

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Speaker 5: years of experience to make that decision using their best

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Speaker 5: military judgment, with the goal of the mission accomplishment within

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Speaker 5: the law. If politicians start witch hunting service members, we

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Speaker 5: create an environment of hesitation which leads to bloodshed for Americans.

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Speaker 5: Question the validity of the executive policy and the decision

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Speaker 5: to prosecute the campaign. Don't start poking at the individual

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Speaker 5: actions within the scope of that campaign anyway. Zero and two,

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Speaker 5: Well said Joe, Well done, sir, appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: So the OFT commented on for the last week or

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Speaker 4: so that you don't it's against the law to bomb

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Speaker 4: shipwreck survivors. That assumes the ship has wrecked. What if

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Speaker 4: the ship is not wrecked yet we're trying to sink

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Speaker 4: an aircraft carrier and it hadn't been sunk yet. There's

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Speaker 4: still people on it, but it hasn't been sunk yet.

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Speaker 4: It might be sinking. We're not sure. We're going to

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Speaker 4: hit it again to make sure it sinks, right, bombed

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Speaker 4: up Jesus out of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, And having heard personally stories from and Jack, I

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Speaker 5: know you have too, at least as much as me,

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Speaker 5: stories from folks who served in Afghanistan particular, but also Iraq,

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Speaker 5: where the rules of engagement were so handcuffing them that

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Speaker 5: it was a statement that, look for kind of political

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Speaker 5: pr reasons, we're gonna let more of you guys get killed, killed, dead,

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Speaker 5: or horribly aim so you don't like accidentally shoot first

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Speaker 5: and make a mistake that it made me so madic

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Speaker 5: could barely function. And what Joe the Marine and other

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Speaker 5: people are pointing out is all right, go after the

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Speaker 5: mission if you want, but do not be armchair quarterbacking

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Speaker 5: guys who have to make the quick decisions. I agree

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Speaker 5: with that completely.

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Speaker 2: Now, where is this story going? The Venezuela story, yeah.

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Speaker 5: The bigger story yea, I don't know. This is clearly

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Speaker 5: an assertive and overdue policy. You've heard me advocating this

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Speaker 5: for years, to really clean up our neighborhood and make

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Speaker 5: our neighborhood about America and its allies. But the not

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Speaker 5: every tin horned jackass kami who grabs power in some

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Speaker 5: god forsaken Banana Republic.

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Speaker 2: Why would we do that? Name a superpower that's ever

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Speaker 2: done that. It's stupid. But Trump got what did he get?

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Speaker 2: Eighty million votes or something like that?

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Speaker 4: Wasn't one of them because they wanted regime chaining in Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: He's ahead of his time. Oh no, no, just that we

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Speaker 2: got our hemisphere needs to be our hemisphere.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll be interesting to watch and we'll talk about

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Speaker 4: it because that's what we do. And if you miss

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Speaker 4: a segment in an hour you should get or an

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Speaker 4: hour you should get the podcast Armstrong you getting on demand.

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Speaker 2: That's how it works.

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Speaker 5: I will admit that if that is the policy, it's

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Speaker 5: going to be a big, challenging, complicated and I hope

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Speaker 5: we're going in with both eyes wide open.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it often gets more complicated than you're expecting. Its right,

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty