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here to discuss everything happening
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within
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our government this is a special report
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it's the political news with mike news
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on sway in the morning all right all
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right ladies and gentlemen
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special edition of political news with
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mike news oh man
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as the world watched what we never
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thought we would see in our lifetime
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in disbelief mike muse and i were
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communicating back and forth trying to
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explain what it was we saw
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so i asked mike muse to call in and just
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man let's break this thing down let's
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lay it out mike
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and and tell us what exactly it is we're
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seeing mike muse
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hello everyone um what we're seeing
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good morning what we're seeing right now
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is
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exactly what i talked about will come to
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pass four years ago around the same time
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at his inauguration
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and that is when president trump at the
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inauguration speech when he stood on
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those very same
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platform that those uh insurgents
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those domestic terrorists stood on
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yesterday
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on that platform where he took the oath
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of office
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and he began to deliver inauguration
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speech
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that is normally when presidents give
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this very
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hopeful message for americans and
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reclaim the spirit of our democracy the
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spirit of the constitution and
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how they're going to interpret the
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spirit of the constitution but as always
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to rise all americans up in higher and
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as always at that moment
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that you use your speech uh to unify and
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never did we have a more divisive time
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period than the beginning of that
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and then to bring both sides together
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and kind of put aside the ugliness of a
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traditional
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presidential campaign and give hope um
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the present united states role is to be
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hopeful
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uh the president's role is to be the
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moral standard of america
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that's why the campaign is such a
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grueling process
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that's why it's so invasive that's why
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they talk to your third grade teacher
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and your fifth grade teacher and they
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talk to your
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your ex-boyfriends and girlfriends and
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whatever that they do they bring
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everything up
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whether it's good or fair right or wrong
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that's just the nature of it because
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this president we put on a pedestal and
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the president is supposed to be
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the standard bearer of morals and the
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goodness in the fabric of
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of what america is and what to be an
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american is and so that is the
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culmination other than that speech
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and instead we got statements like quote
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rusted out factories scattered like
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tombstones across the landscape of our
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nation
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we got verbiage from him that's at the
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school system despite being flushed with
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cash and
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was leaving children deprived of
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knowledge and what we got from him on
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that day on that platform of the
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domestic terrorist stood he says quote
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in the crime and gains and drugs that
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have stolen too many lives and roth our
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country of so much
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unrealized potential this american
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carnage
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stops right here and stops right now and
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it was in the tone and the rhetoric of
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that inauguration speech
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when i knew that we were in for
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something different
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this president was going to usher in a
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dark period of
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america words matter his speech was full
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of white xenophobia tropes
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his speech was full of german nazism
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poetry that is what his speech did there
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was so much more
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darker moments that there's not enough
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time here to even unpack his speech
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but in that moment i discussed it and i
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said that words
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matter and then the next day we saw the
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lies
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we saw the lies of this president talked
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about the size of his inauguration
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and people were getting on me because it
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seemed very petty that i was really
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focusing on
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hanging the presidency on him being
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comparative
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of the size of president obama's
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inauguration to his
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that was the moment that we recognized
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the delusional state that we
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with him and then that's when we
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recognize the narrative of white male
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worship
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that is when we saw this white man as
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press secretary at the time i believe
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his name was spent
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go out into the american public and
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defend
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the lie that the photographs that we're
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seeing that he was displaying
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in the white house press room that that
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crowd size was larger
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than a previous inauguration that's when
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we start seeing this cult of personality
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this celebration of whiteness and white
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maleness and it not being checked at the
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core
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we started seeing that immediately there
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from there uh him getting fired because
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he wasn't doing the duty he wasn't being
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dutiful
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to the present united states then we saw
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shortly thereafter charlottesville
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we saw the president united states say
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there was good people on both sides
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we started to see him enable not
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neo-nazism
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we decide we saw them him and embrace it
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and that was the beginning where we
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began to see white nationalism and
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xenophobia
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rise to the head and that's where we saw
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the republican
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elected officials become silent become
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cowardice
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that is where we saw them not checking
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them at the start
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why in the media you're at fault too at
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this as well
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you refuse to call it what it was you
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refused to call the domestic terrorist
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you refused to call it embracing of
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white nationalism you refused to check
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him at the core
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and we also have we were placating this
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narrative
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on what we have to be equal we have to
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do the both sides
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well if president trump is doing
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something wrong then let's find a bad
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article somewhere where a democrat is
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doing wrong
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no that was where we went wrong and i
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refused to participate
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in that space there was a moment when we
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went away from policy
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and started talking about the discord of
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the hatred that was brewing
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but yet we gave rise to breitbart we
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wanted to hear from them
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we wanted to give them a platform we
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wanted to talk about
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all these things in this assault rifle
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and then we start seeing this rise of
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patriotism
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at his core the elected republican party
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refused to check him they refused to
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stop him when he began to lie
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and we were witnessing this cult of
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disappear we were witnessing domestic
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terrors come to arise
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so all of that is a culmination
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of what we saw last night all of that
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culmination of not checking enabling
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then we get into this narrative what was
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so disarming for me was and
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yes i remember carl was calling up and
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you know they were talking about a coup
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right and i got questions you know do
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you believe there will be a coup
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no because i always imagine a
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traditional coup
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where an elected official in a banana
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republic would use the military at their
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disposal
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to either protect them to staying in
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office or to pull another individual out
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there's always fractions of militaries
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involved in a coup
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i never pictured white domestic
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terrorists at a march
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would then go and insert themselves in
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the capital and the whole time i just
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kept thinking sway had to be in tracy g
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about my articles coming to light i
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started talking about that
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moment in the state capital of michigan
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where we saw those
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white male domestic terrorists standing
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on the state capitol
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at michigan with assault rifles we saw
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those white domestic
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terrorists enter the capitol building
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with
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assault rifles and i juxtaposed that to
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the black panther party
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stood on the state capital of california
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with their assault rifles
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and what became of that was laws were
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enacted to ban assault rifles and then
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that's when we started seeing assault
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rifle bans at that time
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because of fear of a black man with a as
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a gun
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at the capitol that has to be stopped
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but yet when you juxtapose it to the
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state of michigan
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it's okay we're gonna let them kind of
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slide
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let's not stop them it's their right
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it's the second amendment
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they have the right to protest and we
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saw those elected republicans do
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nothing to admonish those domestic
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terrorists we didn't call it that
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we saw kidnapping happen um a plot that
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was stopped
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on the michigan governor whitmer and we
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still saw those elected republicans from
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the local
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all into the federal level do nothing
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and did not check him
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we saw the president celebrate and
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encourage that and we saw
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still saw them do nothing and in the
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backdrop but we see
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every time there's a black lives matter
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protest we were protesting
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from trayvon martin all the way to
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rashad brooks you name it whatever black
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man and woman was
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murdered at the hands of police officers
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when black people took to the streets
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you immediately saw riot gear you
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immediately saw heavily armed police
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officers you
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immediately heard calls for the national
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guard you immediately saw
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violent moves to remove them to stop
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them
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to push them to use all kind of tear gas
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when that was happening
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but yet when we saw and heard from
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president trump inviting the proud boys
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to come down
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saying i'll see you january 6th using
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tweets like it's going to be a wild one
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they knew what was happening but white
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america never wanted to acknowledge the
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fact that
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white people can be this who they are
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black people have always known that
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why black people have always been the
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end result
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of white domestic terror since the
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slavery days since the antebellum days
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since the civil right days we've always
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been on the other end of the side of
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white domestic terrorists but a white
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america never once
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acknowledged it as that they never
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wanted to see their good brother and
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be able to do such a carnage such
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bloodshed
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they never thought that they could do
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that black people we've known
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all the time what the capabilities of
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white domestic terrorists can be and so
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what happened
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they didn't prepare right we're going to
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let these white people domestic
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terrorists come into the district of
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columbia
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be as riled up as we are those factions
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are already certified domestic
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terrorists
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by the southern poverty law center so if
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you know you
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already have domestic terrorists and
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groups in association that are already
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on the list for domestic terrorists
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arriving
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into dc why did you not have the
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military national guard there
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why did you not have your barricades why
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did you not have the riot gear
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if a black lives matter protest would
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have been there
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if a black president would have sent out
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a tweet to an organization that was
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black that was deemed domestic terrorist
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and said i'll see you january
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6th it's going to be a wild one you
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better believe
10:09
they would have done all they could to
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have riot gears tanks
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armory whatever they needed to protect
10:15
all those spaces in place
10:17
but no that wasn't there because of
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biases of law enforcement
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to think that dwight domestic terrorists
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will not do exactly what they did and
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they would not show up to be
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exactly who they are and that's exactly
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what happened as they stormed
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the capitol building breaking glass
10:33
destroying the property
10:35
stealing the speaker of the house podium
10:38
sitting in an elected official's office
10:40
storming the floor of the capitol
10:42
eroding
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whatever was left of our democracy
10:46
what else was happening at that time
10:48
president trump
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was making videos encouraging it in the
10:52
height of the moment of the breach
10:54
he sent out a video and in the video he
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said that
10:57
the elections was stolen he called them
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patriots
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prior to that he encouraged them at the
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rally he says
11:05
and i quote we're going to walk down to
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the capitol to cheer on brave senators
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you would never take back our country
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with
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weakness you have to be strong signaling
11:16
the use of force giuliani talked about a
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use of
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force they gave in order to do exactly
11:22
what it is that they did and what have
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we seen at that moment
11:26
after it was all done do you think in
11:28
that moment every senator
11:30
every house republican would say we now
11:32
know the era of our ways
11:34
we have to cool this down we're not
11:36
going to continue to do the objection of
11:39
these votes and what did they do
11:40
they went forward with the objections as
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they did
11:43
in six to seven senators even after that
11:47
still stood up and discussed the
11:49
importance of having to object
11:51
to this election and to where we are yes
11:54
mitch mcconnell got on there
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and they had began to have this
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awakening lindsey graham became to have
11:59
awakening too late
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it's too late you're now reaping what
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you show and say i don't
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know how how america
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fixes that because now it's unleashed i
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kept saying you can't put this back in
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the bottle
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once white white apprentice
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as if they are black greek letter
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organization they proudly sport
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their jackets around they proudly wear
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their t-shirts
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they proudly read their hats now they
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now have found
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each other and now they have found their
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tribe where they can convene with
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they found their tribe now where they
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won't be admonished they don't even fear
12:39
losing a job because
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why because employers entrepreneurs
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small business owners can't be domestic
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terrorists so they were able to find a
12:48
job amongst themselves
12:49
that q anon that is a network of white
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and or not right this domestic terrorist
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so domestic terrorists now have a
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brotherhood if you will
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and because the president trump has
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allowed that and no one has
13:03
checked them because this illusion of
13:05
whiteness can't be that bad
13:07
i'ma kill somebody on fifth avenue and
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nothing won't happen to me i'll grab a
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woman by her vagina parts and nothing's
13:12
gonna happen to me i do it all the time
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no big deal mexicans are rapists and
13:17
gang members no big deal
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white white america didn't check that
13:20
those white elected officials did not
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check that
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there is a permissiveness that has been
13:25
allowed for that type of behavior and
13:27
toxic masculinity
13:29
that is acceptable it's no harm and i
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think for me as a black man as i was
13:34
watching this all unfold
13:35
i couldn't help but look at it from that
13:37
lens and the duality
13:39
of blackness compared to whiteness the
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words thug and how it was used on us
13:44
but not given to them right those were
13:47
thugs they don't want to say it
13:48
and terrorist is always associated with
13:51
those of
13:52
the islamic states right those who wear
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the hijab
13:56
right no terrorist is exactly
13:59
white men they also can be terrorists
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and it's time now that we start talking
14:04
like this and get uncomfortable
14:06
in that and blame fault and hold them
14:09
accountable
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as i you know as i you know as we kind
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of wrap this part up
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there needs to be some type of a museum
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or
14:17
some type of memorium dedicated
14:21
to every elected republican from the
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local level
14:25
to the federal level from the time this
14:27
president got inaugurated
14:29
until january 20th who enabled every
14:32
action
14:33
that will forever change the fabric of
14:36
this country
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mike muse um i want to talk about
14:41
insurrection
14:42
it's insurrection considered a form of
14:44
treason
14:46
it can be it's a yeah it definitely can
14:48
be so insurrection despite you know
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definition is
14:51
uprising against an authority or
14:52
government so then just by that you know
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definition it
14:54
is an act of treason now it's a matter
14:57
of
14:58
you know who do you hold responsible
15:00
you're for sure can hold those
15:02
domestic terrorists and they need to
15:04
deem them as that when they arrest them
15:05
and charge them
15:06
and as domestic terrorism um now they've
15:09
shown their video they've shown their
15:11
faces they've said their first name
15:12
someone got murdered someone actually
15:14
died i know one person there i'm hearing
15:17
count up to four i can't confirm the
15:19
other three yet but i do know that there
15:21
specifically there is one an individual
15:24
was shot
15:25
in the capitol murdered one
15:28
by the but by my account and this is in
15:31
the official record
15:32
by one of them they are doing damage
15:35
even to their own souls
15:36
for this right of whatever it is
15:40
what has held and kept america together
15:42
is tradition
15:44
right like we've always had like this
15:47
transition
15:48
of power that this is why that that term
15:51
is so important
15:53
is because you get this you will get
15:55
what you will see in south america if
15:57
you don't have a transition in power
15:58
you'll get what you see in the middle
16:00
east you'll get what you see in other
16:02
parts of like these banana republics
16:04
that's why america has always been so
16:06
unique we're different from britain's
16:08
parliament we just have a different way
16:10
of functioning you want to talk about
16:12
rambunctiousness you know the parliament
16:14
i'm not here not any other country's
16:16
governmental system
16:17
but our system for what it's worth
16:20
is perfect and it's imperfection and i
16:23
say that because
16:24
even i know black folks have always had
16:26
an issue
16:27
with with one we were never able to
16:29
allow to vote but then there's always
16:31
this narrative that when we did get the
16:32
right to vote that our vote doesn't
16:33
count
16:34
for the first time now as a result of
16:36
what we saw in milwaukee detroit
16:38
atlanta philadelphia black and also to
16:40
what we saw two nights ago what happened
16:42
in atlanta in the rural black parts of
16:44
georgia
16:44
that black people have been responsible
16:46
for this democratic party being able to
16:48
have a control of the white house and a
16:50
descendent of the house
16:51
black people are now realizing the power
16:53
of their vote right and so now that
16:55
people are realizing the power of their
16:57
vote
16:57
now perfecting the imperfecting we're on
17:01
course for that
17:02
that is why our democracy is so unique
17:04
and is so
17:05
special something that got me emotional
17:07
yesterday sway was that heather being
17:09
jcg
17:10
was that you know black people have
17:12
always had
17:13
a interesting relationship when it comes
17:15
to patriotism patriotism has always been
17:17
defined by white people
17:19
right if you think pastry if you think
17:20
you like and i've always wanted
17:23
secretly nothing secretly but i've
17:25
always wanted black people to begin to
17:27
embrace
17:28
patriotism and being a patriot of this
17:30
country because this is our country too
17:33
i i'm sick of black americans feeling
17:36
like we're a guest
17:37
in this country this is our country we
17:40
built
17:40
this country within the from the cotton
17:43
that we picked
17:44
the tobacco that we picked we stirred
17:46
the agriculture of this econom
17:48
of this country that served the economy
17:50
of this country
17:51
we built the white house we have built
17:54
so much of america has been put on the
17:57
on this on the backs of slaves
17:59
and individuals who work for nothing we
18:01
think about criminal justice and the
18:02
criminals they use on the line to help
18:05
build and create cities and railroads
18:09
off the backs of blacks this is our
18:12
country
18:13
as well and i was
18:16
felt something in my spirit yesterday
18:18
watching that
18:19
how i was so bothered seeing these
18:22
domestic terrorists tear down my capital
18:24
and i kept using those words that's my
18:26
capital right
18:28
that's that's my democracy right and i
18:31
felt
18:31
so happy that i was having that
18:33
emotional reaction to that
18:35
right and i was so happy to see so many
18:38
black americans
18:39
also having that reaction because it's
18:41
we're finally
18:42
recognizing that we're not guests this
18:44
is ours
18:45
so those domestic terrorists they're
18:47
guests in our home they're now guests in
18:49
our country
18:50
right that's how we have to see it and
18:52
once we start getting that mindset
18:54
boy oh boy would there be another
18:56
awakening right
18:58
in the power of that so that was all
19:00
that was really happening last night and
19:01
how it was feeling
19:02
mike that by the way round of applause
19:04
for mike muse for
19:05
bringing clarity i like that yeah
19:10
look what happens from here now you got
19:13
lawmakers that are saying remove him
19:15
from office
19:16
is dangerous he need to get out of that
19:17
white house we can't have them another
19:19
13 days
19:22
are any charges or anything
19:25
do you see uh because of this
19:28
um happening to trump i'm so glad you
19:32
raised that question this way
19:34
and the answer is we don't know what
19:37
these
19:37
cowardly elected republican
19:40
members will do trump is dangerous
19:44
trump is the most dangerous he has ever
19:46
been and i say that literally
19:48
he is the most dangerous he's ever been
19:50
he was delusional and we
19:52
saw it we saw the delusion of him
19:55
inauguration four years ago so for him
19:58
we've seen the delusion of him
20:00
we've seen that he lies all the time and
20:02
he lives in another world
20:04
he is so hurt and whatever
20:08
happened to him losing triggered a depth
20:10
of psychotic breakdown that i'm not an
20:12
uh
20:13
a physician or a medical person to to
20:15
diagnose on that front
20:16
but just seeing from a common sense
20:18
perspective the breakdown he's having
20:21
this man controls the nuclear code
20:24
this man knows where all the bodies are
20:26
buried the power of the presidency is
20:28
real y'all
20:29
the power of the presidency can command
20:31
armies to do
20:33
things right so for him to be
20:36
in that white house isolated alone
20:39
twitter blocked it for 12 hours i don't
20:41
know they're gonna remove him
20:42
permanently
20:43
right but he has no outlet now so there
20:46
is no
20:47
telling what he is concocting what he's
20:49
thinking and what he's willing to do to
20:51
save himself from
20:52
criminal uh exposure that that awaits
20:55
him come january 21st the morning he
20:57
wakes up
20:57
not uh inside the white house there is
21:00
no
21:00
telling what is on his mind when he
21:02
knows that billion dollars is
21:04
due after he leaves the white house
21:07
imagine the stress that the average
21:09
american is on when they can't pay their
21:11
light bill
21:12
imagine the stress that americans feel
21:13
when they can't pay their cardinal
21:15
and they're facing the repo man imagine
21:18
americans
21:19
your anxiety that it doesn't happen to
21:21
you you've known individuals and what
21:23
that feels like
21:24
now imagine a billion dollars is waiting
21:26
for you you don't have the money to pay
21:28
for it
21:28
imagine the fact that you know criminal
21:30
exposure and indictments could possibly
21:33
be coming down the pipeline
21:34
then coupled with that that you have a
21:36
stressful job just in general
21:38
now couple that you have the nuclear
21:39
codes this is danger
21:41
this is dangerous to our to our country
21:44
we don't know
21:45
so the two options are available there
21:47
are two things
21:48
there is an impeachment can happen
21:51
we've always already seen the democrats
21:53
were willing to go for impeachment and
21:55
every democrat
21:56
voted in the senate to remove him it's
21:58
always a two-step process so you you
22:00
the house moves to impeach if they vote
22:02
in the affirmative
22:03
he's impeached but at that moment it has
22:06
to go to the senate and then the senate
22:07
has to vote for removal
22:09
we saw last time those republicans
22:11
didn't remove him
22:12
what did the republican susan senator
22:14
susan collins say she says quote i hope
22:16
he learns
22:17
i think he learned his lesson now end
22:19
quote really
22:20
so they're not i don't know if they're
22:23
going to
22:24
vote to remove him so that that is an
22:26
option but that's going to take a little
22:27
while
22:27
that we only have 13 more days the
22:30
second option that is possible
22:32
is what is called the 25th amendment and
22:34
i want to explain to people because i
22:36
see that going around
22:37
how difficult that really is
22:41
the 25th amendment has to start from the
22:44
cabinet
22:45
right the presidential cabinet there has
22:47
to be and it has to be
22:48
enacted meaning that the process has to
22:51
start
22:52
with by the vice president right so in
22:54
this case
22:55
it'll be vice president pence so vice
22:57
president pence will have to start
23:00
motion for it for the 25th amendment
23:02
that is basically a removal of president
23:04
but he has to get a majority of the
23:06
cabinet to sign on
23:08
once president trump realizes that this
23:11
25th amendment is in process
23:13
he could this is how it works in the
23:15
constitution he then can send a letter
23:17
to congress
23:18
to contest what his cabinet is doing at
23:22
that moment
23:23
the vice president and the majority
23:25
cabinet members will then
23:27
send it back to the congress to respond
23:30
to the president's protest and they will
23:33
say
23:34
we objected his protest we
23:37
believe we have to move forward with the
23:39
removal of this president
23:41
at that moment the
23:44
congress has to have a super majority so
23:47
there has to be approximately
23:48
200 i believe 240 members of the house
23:51
that would have to vote for removal and
23:54
then i believe 67
23:55
members in the senate that has a super
23:59
that that equals a super majority to
24:01
have him removed
24:02
so that is the process that we're at if
24:04
not there are no
24:06
there are no other options and it
24:08
literally comes down to
24:10
the cowardly list the cowardness of
24:12
these elected republican officials
24:15
we've seen them be cowardly before we
24:18
saw
24:18
six to seven of them yesterday still
24:21
vote
24:22
to object the election that we had i
24:25
don't know if they would have enough
24:26
votes to even remove him
24:28
um if they do the 25th amendment so
24:31
those are the two remaining options that
24:33
we have but i
24:34
say this he needs to be removed because
24:39
he
24:39
is dangerous the power of the presidency
24:43
is too much power in that position not
24:46
even just
24:47
president trump by definition of the
24:49
title i think that's what people fail to
24:51
realize it
24:52
it's not about him you know whoever sits
24:55
in that oval office is a custodian of
24:57
the office they're just a caretaker for
24:59
four to eight years it doesn't belong to
25:01
him
25:02
or and maybe one day or her right but
25:04
for now in him it doesn't belong to him
25:07
and so we have to figure out
25:10
immediately what's going to happen
25:13
because how much power resides
25:15
in the presidency okay we have a madman
25:18
in there we have a mad man what's going
25:21
to happen to pence
25:23
yes that's exactly what i was thinking
25:25
what are your thoughts on pants mike
25:26
muse
25:28
i mean i just want that to sit for a
25:30
second sway the way you just put that
25:32
someone died because president trump
25:35
lied
25:36
one of his cult figure domestic
25:39
terrorists
25:41
went to the capitol to defend
25:44
a lie that this vote was stolen from him
25:48
that he has been fabricating that every
25:51
state secretary of state that's been
25:54
republican
25:55
every governor who has certified has
25:58
said there's been no
25:59
fraud in this election within our state
26:01
every
26:02
court battle that that got dismissed
26:05
that said
26:06
they didn't get one victory in the court
26:09
system
26:10
except for one which was for some type
26:11
of procedural thing
26:13
to the supreme court two times
26:16
dismissed their case so you have the
26:19
state level the judicial you have all
26:22
three
26:23
brands of the government essentially you
26:24
had the the state level
26:27
you had the judiciary and the federal
26:30
and you even had the supreme court
26:33
say nothing about this has been
26:35
fraudulent
26:36
but yet someone believed him
26:40
him being trump went to the capitol to
26:44
defend this
26:44
fabricated lie that the supreme court
26:47
wouldn't even hear
26:48
and died because of that
26:51
words matter
26:54
words matter when and words matter when
26:58
you're the president
26:59
of the united states it matters so pets
27:02
i'm not here for pence okay i'm not here
27:05
for any of them i'm not here for any of
27:07
those moments who had
27:08
an awakening at the 12th hour we're like
27:12
almost 10 days out from the end of their
27:14
administration and now everyone's having
27:15
a come to jesus moment
27:17
no am i happy that you know
27:20
that happy that he followed the
27:21
constitution and didn't destroy it more
27:24
at this point we're thanking somebody
27:27
for doing what they're supposed to be
27:29
doing
27:29
right like he didn't do above and beyond
27:31
like
27:32
that role is ceremonial he's essentially
27:35
he's like the
27:36
ins he's like the host of the oscars the
27:38
host of the grammys right like
27:40
the host of the vma he's like there's no
27:43
the post doesn't have power
27:44
the host is there just to keep the show
27:46
moving right like that's
27:48
all pence's role that's all not even
27:50
expense that's all the vice
27:52
president united states role is in that
27:54
moment is just a host
27:56
he's just supposed to open up the
27:57
envelope read those those articles
28:00
and then they vote that's all that's all
28:02
he does uh but the prince being said he
28:04
did have that moment
28:06
he and also too prince prince vice
28:09
president
28:09
pence was the one when president trump
28:12
refused to issue it
28:13
right to sit out the national guard they
28:15
had to go through
28:16
pence pence had to get the order for the
28:18
national guard
28:19
so pence is i guess realizing you know
28:22
10 14 days out that you know he should
28:24
be
28:25
adhering to the constitution and he
28:26
should care about a democracy but penn
28:28
state by his side
28:30
ever since president trump got in uh
28:32
came out and said that he wanted to be
28:33
his vice presidential candidate he's
28:35
been by him side when
28:36
uh charlottesville happened he's been by
28:38
him side with all the delusional aspect
28:40
of it
28:40
he's been by his side his side every
28:43
step of the way
28:44
and did not check him that one single
28:47
time
28:47
so that's the tense that's pissed we got
28:50
claudette on the line from texas grand
28:52
rises clyde
28:53
welcome to the show hey claudette
28:55
claudette thank you
28:56
thank you good morning everyone my my
28:59
question
28:59
is given the debacle that we're in now
29:04
and taking a look at the past four years
29:07
with trump and really i and i understand
29:11
the thing about mike pence he's been in
29:12
lockstep
29:13
but really does he would he have even
29:16
had a leg to stand on if he did
29:18
buck president trump but the thing is is
29:22
should congress consider uh
29:25
checking some of the president's
29:27
abilities to do
29:28
what he's done and make some changes to
29:32
the role of the presidency
29:34
because it is so dangerous it is so
29:38
it is so polarizing when you have a
29:41
crazy person at the helm
29:44
and there's nothing we can do to even
29:47
get and correct the boat we're just all
29:50
hanging on by the seat of our pants and
29:51
every day i wake up
29:53
i wake up with such trepidation about
29:55
what the hell did this man do
29:57
while i was sleeping you know every
30:00
morning
30:00
and you wake up with such fear and such
30:03
trepidation that
30:04
the country may not be what
30:08
you thought it was the night you went to
30:10
sleep
30:12
it's crazy and my husband is a trump
30:16
supporter
30:18
and my house has been divided
30:21
since four years ago i mean i
30:24
literally thought about divorcing the
30:26
man over this
30:28
and it wasn't until we had a really big
30:31
blowout that that [ __ ] stopped
30:35
because i said we will never talk about
30:38
politics in our house
30:40
we do not agree i'm black he's hispanic
30:45
i told him we do not agree and
30:49
we will never agree when it comes to
30:51
that man
30:52
because he's hateful but he's also
30:55
crazy and so are the people that follow
30:58
him
31:00
and so my husband was like well you
31:02
think i'm crazy and i said absolutely
31:05
absolutely down to the core of my being
31:09
absolutely because history will look
31:12
back
31:13
at this time and it's had
31:17
more on this country it's a
31:20
mar on this country and i'm not even
31:23
from here
31:25
i was born in england and i came to
31:28
america with my parents
31:30
and this is not the america i came to
31:33
this is not and it just breaks my heart
31:37
every day to see this debacle take place
31:41
in front of the entire world we have
31:45
no face in the entire world we could
31:47
never go into another country and say
31:50
we're better than you we'll show you how
31:52
to do it
31:53
show you what this [ __ ] it's it's
31:57
amazing
31:58
how just disconnected people are in this
32:01
country
32:02
and they think that it's fine because
32:04
they believe
32:05
that this is the best place in the world
32:08
and they have never been anywhere else
32:10
and don't realize that third world
32:12
countries are laughing at you
32:14
yesterday on tick tock i saw a man say
32:17
that america is a third world country
32:19
with a gucci belt
32:20
and that's exactly true
32:23
it is exactly true and i hate that i
32:26
hate it with all
32:28
with everything that i that i know i
32:31
hate that
32:32
but it is so true claudette thank you
32:34
well one thank you so much for
32:36
calling and sharing your emotions and i
32:39
think you are getting
32:40
to the emotional core of how so many
32:42
americans are feeling
32:44
and how your love for this country
32:47
and how it impacts you and
32:50
america has always been this shiny
32:52
beacon it's always been the shiny beacon
32:54
you know on top of the hill
32:56
that's where we are we're the
32:58
laughingstock of the world
32:59
you know i think it just used pop
33:01
culture references
33:02
you know you always say you never
33:04
believe your headlines the moment you
33:05
start reading your headlines
33:07
that's the moment you fall when you
33:09
start thinking that
33:10
you know your your fans will always be
33:13
there
33:13
no matter what type of music you put out
33:15
eventually your fans leave you
33:17
right the mob is fickle right and that's
33:20
america
33:21
happening right now america has been
33:23
very arrogant
33:24
in our democracy because we've been so
33:26
there's been no reason to ever check it
33:28
but we watched over four years one man
33:32
in white domestic terrorism and coward
33:35
republicans from
33:36
uh 2016 2020 allowed our country to be
33:40
eroded
33:41
allowed our standings in the world to be
33:43
eroded we've been
33:44
been a laughingstock every time the
33:46
president goes on one of those
33:47
diplomatic missions and we have the you
33:50
the the g8
33:51
summits the united nations summits all
33:54
those things
33:55
all the world leaders laugh at him he's
33:58
a joke
33:58
none of my friends who live overseas one
34:01
used to
34:02
one in particular used to live here uh
34:04
now lives over in syria you know i was
34:06
like yo you're never going to come back
34:06
to new york he said why would i come
34:08
back to america
34:10
he's i have no interest in it people
34:12
don't have an interest in coming to
34:14
america
34:15
anymore and that's where we are with
34:17
that to be specific though
34:20
i want to make sure i get to your
34:20
question it's a very powerful question
34:22
and i think it's something very powerful
34:24
that we have to wrestle with
34:25
unfortunately as americans
34:27
she talked about if people forgot just
34:29
to reset scholar talked about
34:32
does a president and not just trump so
34:33
again remember folks the president think
34:35
about this is the oval office i'm going
34:37
to talk about from the oval office
34:39
does the oval office have too much power
34:42
and should congress strip the oval
34:44
office of power when our founding
34:46
fathers
34:47
created the constitution they had all of
34:50
these things in mind
34:51
they had everything in mind that one day
34:53
there could be a
34:55
person like a trump i don't think they
34:58
recognized
34:58
how much of a trump was on their hands
35:02
but that there would be a trump but
35:04
that's why we have
35:05
three executive branches
35:08
of our government excuse me three
35:10
branches of our government for checks
35:12
and balances
35:13
right the legislative which is congress
35:15
the executive which is the white house
35:17
the judicial which is the supreme court
35:20
so that if one was getting too powerful
35:23
or too
35:23
out of hand the other two branches would
35:26
be there to check
35:28
to check that other branch it's a check
35:30
and balance and that's why it's three
35:32
and not
35:32
like an equal number so it's an odd
35:34
number and not an equal number
35:36
for that purpose right there but what
35:39
happened what we saw was
35:41
this oval office this president got so
35:43
powerful
35:45
but who enabled him the legislative
35:48
branch
35:49
congress who specifically the republican
35:51
party from 2016
35:53
to 2020 enabled him they didn't check
35:56
him
35:57
so as a result you saw this executive
36:00
branch
36:00
expand to almost unlimited power because
36:04
congress the republican allowed it they
36:07
didn't check him
36:08
and what happened was the founding
36:10
framers of our
36:12
of our country didn't anticipate
36:15
that the legislative branch wouldn't
36:18
check
36:18
the executive branch and that's what we
36:20
have a system here
36:22
i think we should be really careful when
36:23
we start thinking about stripping power
36:26
of the oval office is because it's in
36:28
that unique
36:29
moment that our president has the
36:31
ability to move swiftly
36:33
you know to be decisive you know to
36:36
protect america in the moment that we
36:37
need to strike
36:38
you know for detect america if we have
36:40
to issue the nuclear codes
36:41
to protect america to get this signed
36:43
off if we need to do secret black ops
36:45
overseas to protect
36:47
our assets that we have overseas or
36:49
whatever the case may be
36:51
i do think that that's unique to america
36:53
that's unique
36:54
to our system because everything is in
36:56
place you know it's always interesting
36:58
and i hope now
36:59
in the next election cycle in 2024
37:02
people stop saying they're exhausted
37:04
from watching the debates
37:06
right i hope people stop saying they're
37:08
tired of hearing about the presence or
37:10
candidates
37:10
right yes it's exhausting but we don't
37:13
want to get to the point where we say
37:14
we're so tired of it that we too now
37:16
because the purpose of those debates are
37:20
it's think about the debate that if
37:22
you're going to an interview
37:23
to a job if you're trying to get a job
37:25
at cvs
37:26
if you're trying to become a trucker if
37:28
you're trying to become a nurse
37:30
a teacher you're trying to work in tech
37:32
you have to get interviewed
37:34
and all the first right sometimes
37:36
there's an initial screening
37:38
for the interview where the human
37:39
resources person will call you up and
37:41
kind of just say
37:42
hey someone like interested in this job
37:44
right they'll bring you in for an
37:45
interview
37:46
tell me more about yourself and then you
37:47
usually go to a second round interview
37:49
the second round interview is
37:50
tell me about this if you get into this
37:52
situation how would you handle it on the
37:54
job
37:55
the third interview gets a little bit
37:56
more harder here's a model
37:59
talk to me how you would execute this
38:01
and then the next interview sometimes
38:02
whereas more high-performing jobs
38:05
you have to go oh sometimes i've had
38:07
friends who've gotten interviews like
38:08
seven
38:09
times gone to eight rounds of interviews
38:11
10 rounds of interviews i had one person
38:13
go through 20 rounds of interviews
38:15
right because they need to know if
38:16
you're a fit one if you're smart
38:20
two how do you handle people three how
38:22
do you handle when you get in
38:23
complicated position
38:25
four how can you how do we know you can
38:26
protect and make sure you can bring
38:28
income and revenue into this company
38:29
and then the final thing is cultural fit
38:32
do you
38:33
culturally fit this company so if a
38:36
person can get interviewed up to 10
38:38
times in corporate america
38:41
why wouldn't you expect that to happen
38:42
the presidential candidate who had
38:44
nuclear codes that's why we have all
38:47
those debates
38:48
that's why the primaries we have like 20
38:50
primary debates
38:52
because we need to interview all of
38:54
those candidates
38:55
to make sure we don't get what we've got
38:59
and we need to stop wanting to be
39:01
entertained
39:02
yeah i'm so sick of people watching the
39:04
news for entertainment
39:05
i'm so sick of people watching and doing
39:07
things on internet
39:08
for a clap back moment a retweetable
39:10
moment that's how we got here
39:13
this is not a lasting matter this is not
39:15
anything funny
39:17
we shouldn't be looking for debates to
39:18
be entertained it is boring
39:20
is the equivalency of you watching
39:22
someone get interviewed
39:24
for a job at walmart
39:27
cvs kroger's wherever nobody wants to
39:30
watch that
39:30
but it's an important process but we
39:33
need to watch that
39:34
because if not we're going to get
39:35
exactly what we got
39:37
so i don't know i'm on the fence about
39:40
stripping power
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right it's just about we need to be more
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dutiful
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as american citizens on who we're
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electing and we need to participate in
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the process
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tune into the debates tune into the
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background and see how they answer
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questions
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wait you don't understand foreign policy
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when it comes to syria the middle east
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wait you don't understand why what the
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impact of brexit can have on american
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economy wait
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you even understand the american economy
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wait wait wait you don't understand how
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your tax cut
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a 0.05 percent will have an immediate
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impact on those who make less than 75
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thousand dollars
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wait wait you don't understand when you
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talk about giving vouchers to public
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schools how that
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vouches to k-12 how that can have an
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impact on the public school system
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wait wait you don't understand et cetera
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et cetera et cetera
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right that's why we're asking all those
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boring questions
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because you get this into this caller's
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point
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because the oval office is so powerful
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and we have to start
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looking at it like that you know
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yesterday's debacle really
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really um i had to bite my tongue not to
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say anything
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yeah because i didn't want it to blow up
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but i've got to tell you
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um just seeing people act like that
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and the disparity between what you saw
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with blm protest and with this
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you know the whole polarization of
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everything
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i said wow where are we going as a
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country
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you know because i've i had a professor
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that told me that
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that something he said that stayed with
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me uh for the rest of my life i think
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it'll stay with me
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if you have no vision
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then you're just aimlessly wondering and
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it's like what's the point we're trying
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to get to
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you know i know where blm is trying to
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get to it's trying to equalize
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everything
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i know i know where that is but where is
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the rest of the country trying to get to
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you know because i see a lot of a lot of
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them trying to
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trying to keep things a status quo you
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know
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it's just like hey it was good for me so
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it's good for you right no
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it's not good for me and we have to try
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to
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i i my hope is
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in those that are coming along that
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that are younger when i see my neph my
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nieces and nephews i'm like
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everything's gonna be on your shoulders
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but what are we leaving you
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to build america on what what america
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are we gonna leave you
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what type of america are we gonna leave
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you
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and all i can tell people is get engaged
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with voting
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locally and across the country
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because this is heartbreaking
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but you know you're really it really
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thank you y'all have a blessed day
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you too you have a blessed day that's oh
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man wow you said sway quiet
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no you ain't got nothing to say yeah
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nothing to say it an answer though
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silence is also a response there it is
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sway in the morning let us know what's
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on your mind shave four or five
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you
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