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The Masculinity Crisis Nobody’s Talking About · Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

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  I know you're not the biggest fan of
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  clvicular. I mean, who is? But isn't it
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  a relief that there's now a socially
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  acceptable way for straight men to
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  compliment each other's looks? No. And
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  who in the UFC would say mogs the
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  hardest? I'm not even answering the
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  second question, guys.
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  The way to create a system for men to be
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  able to compliment one another should
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  not be a route through selfdeformity.
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  And in fact, that's the worst way to
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  give another guy a compliment because
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  now you're reinforcing the idea that
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  he's got to do all this [ __ ] to himself
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  to make him look a certain way. That's
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  the [ __ ] you're you're you're you're
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  endorsing the worst things that are
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  pressuring young dudes to look a certain
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  way. Guys, I will tell you, do looks
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  matter? As far as I can tell, they
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  definitely matter. But what I can
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  definitely also tell you is that what
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  matters much more than that is having a
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  [ __ ] personality. And the good news
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  is none of us are really born with one.
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  Some are more socially gregarious
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  naturally than others. But you can
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  actually work on that. That's a thing
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  you can work on. And it turns out if you
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  end up cultivating that, you can
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  actually cultivate yourself in a much
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  more interesting and dynamic way. I've
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  been trying to make this point, this
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  idea that you got to look your very,
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  very best. Yes, you should take pride in
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  your appearance and you should take
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  efforts to you know uh maintain a
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  healthy weight if you can and you know
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  um um you know maintain a a clean uh
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  living space and you know just just h
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  have a have a self-care kind of
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  orientation that's real and healthy and
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  long lasting the kind of thing you can
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  do over the course of your life. Of
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  course. Of course. And if you want to go
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  lift weights, go lift weights. You guys
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  know I I have nothing bad to say about
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  that whatsoever. like go do all that
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  stuff. But like these guys in their 20s
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  taking peptides and [ __ ] TRT and
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  things to combat hair loss and then
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  hammering their face and then being
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  like, "Oh, doesn't this create a pathway
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  to compliment it?" No. It gives you a
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  pathway to double down on the worst
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  ideas about what masculine ideals
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  themselves should be. [ __ ] no. [ __ ] no.
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  You should just not be afraid to be
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  vulnerable with another dude if you're
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  straight and he's straight. That's
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  that's the trick is to not feel is and
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  it t you know might maybe takes a little
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  bit of practice or the right kind of
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  relationship with another friend but
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  like is to just not feel shame for
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  having a totally nonsexual but like
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  general re not reverence but you know
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  hey man you're looking great looking
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  smooth brother you know something like
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  that. Um but but but trying to force
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  that through this through this broken
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  refracted
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  world of self-mutilation.
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  No, no. I think that's terrible for
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  young dudes. Terrible, terrible,
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  terrible. Make an effort on your
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  physical appearance, right? Make an
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  effort. Take care of yourself. But if
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  you really actually want to get to the
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  next level, it's not your [ __ ] looks,
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  man. It's your personality.
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  Like, do you know how many ugly dudes
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  with like killer personalities I've seen
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  clean up? Those dudes clean up a lot
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  more than the one who's well I Okay,
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  they'll clean up just as much as the
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  pretty one who doesn't have much of a
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  personality. But even those ones do
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  their looks fade. Doesn't last very long
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  anyway. You It's very very hard in your
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  in your 40s and 50s to look like, you
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  know, [ __ ] in your prime. like it's
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  just not it's just not going to be. Work
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  on your personality. Work on that. Uh uh
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  Danny says, which I'm guessing that's
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  what it is. How do you combat the panic
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  in the state of the world? I don't,
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  brother. What anxiety has been my excuse
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  me, my anxiety has been through the
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  roof. Guys,
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  I had migraines the last two weeks.
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  Okay?
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  Is I'm going to tell you a true story. I
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  had migraines the last two weeks and I
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  couldn't quite figure out what what like
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  where they were coming from. I mean like
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  what exactly was triggering them and I'm
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  still not sure but uh I saw a health
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  care professional yesterday for
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  something unrelated and they asked about
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  how I was doing and I explained to them
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  and then you know I kind of you know
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  they make you do like the questionnaires
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  like how are you sleeping? Do you have
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  trouble going to sleep? Do you have
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  trouble staying asleep? How often are
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  you worried? Do you have suicidal
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  ideation? Like all the do you have
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  family history of cancer, smoking? Blah
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  blah all this stuff you got to fill out.
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  Have you ever done that stuff? Okay.
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  So, I did all that and then she goes,
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  "When was the last time you had your
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  blood pressure taken?" I was like, "I
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  don't know. I had some blood work done a
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  few months ago for some kind of thing
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  and it was pretty normal." She goes,
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  "Let's let's take it."
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  She took my [ __ ] blood
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  pressure.
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  And the
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  the look the look on her face when she
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  like gave me the number was
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  she literally was like, "I'm not going
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  to tell you to go to the ER right now,
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  but you need to go see your primary care
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  doctor as soon as possible." I actually
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  went today to go see him. And sure
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  enough,
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  now I'm on [ __ ] blood pressure
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  medication.
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  I'm not even doing a [ __ ] bit. I'm 40
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  [ __ ] six and my BMI was not out of a
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  healthy uh was in the normal range.
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  Heart, you know, my heart rate's in the
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  range. They I did they did an EKG, did a
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  whole I did a whole physical. Everything
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  was great for the most my cholesterol
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  was a little high, but you not even then
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  not that bad. Uh, my [ __ ] blood
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  pressure was insane. Now, the doctor
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  said he's not sure that the migraines
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  are connected to the blood pressure
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  because of the way that they feel versus
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  hemispheric versus, you know, more
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  broadly. But, uh, he was like, "You got
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  to get a handle on this. You're you're
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  dangerously close to a [ __ ] stroke."
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  And I was like, "Okay." So, um, you'll
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  notice like I didn't put out hardly any
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  work yesterday. um tweeted a little bit
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  and then today not much here today. I'm
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  trying to take a bit of a step back as I
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  can to kind of bring this temperature
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  down a little bit. But uh you're asking
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  how I deal with it. Dude, I it's
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  destroying me. It's destroy it's
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  straight up destroying me. And so I
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  don't know how to deal with it other
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  than to just like however much I'm
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  consuming of the world particularly
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  particularly through the phone or social
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  media, I just got to put it away. Uh,
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  and in fact, my blood pressure was a
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  little bit lower today relative to the
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  getting it checked a couple days ago.
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  And so, it's seems to be slightly
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  ticking down and hope this medication
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  I'm told is going to make a difference.
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  But, um, yeah, dude, the stress is ab
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  like is quite literally killing me. It's
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  killing me. Keep hearing talks of Tucker
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  Carlson for president 2028. I hate the
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  guy. How much truth do you think there
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  is with that with the Iran war and
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  fractured Dem Party
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  for Tucker?
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  I'll say this, one of the things that
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  really really concerns me for 2026 and
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  well really 2028,
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  aside from the fact that are we even
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  going to get a free and fair election, I
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  mean, who the [ __ ] knows, right?
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  assuming that we do
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  is the left's unwillingness to confront
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  Apac and the left's unwillingness to
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  confront the crimes of Israel and
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  letting
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  the Nick Fuentes of the world take that
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  because if you actually listen to
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  Fuentes's commentary, you know, he is
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  very cleareyed about the problem. No,
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  he's I think he goes in directions that
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  I obviously would never follow, but just
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  in terms of like, you know, he he under
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  he how do I say this exactly?
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  He is not beholden to their interests
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  and he makes a very clear case. In some
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  cases, he can be right about the effect
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  that that country is having on this one
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  and how delletterious and bad it is for
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  us and the world. But of course, the
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  problem is he goes into these other
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  directions that I simply cannot follow.
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  But the point I'm trying to make is if
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  the left doesn't make those cases
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  about the state of Israel and the harm
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  it's doing to the world and the harm
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  it's doing to the United States, then
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  the Nick Fuentes of the world will. And
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  I think whoever owns that issue in 2028
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  when it's become clear that this war was
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  a [ __ ] disaster that failed miserably
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  and did so in no small part because of
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  our inability to detach ourselves from
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  this fanatical state. I fear greatly for
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  what that would mean for the left.
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  Because if you let in, you know, the
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  Gorer movement to take hold in national
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  politics, I think all bets are off at
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  that point. I mean, all bets might
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  already be off, but at that point, it's
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  truly it's it's hopeless for you at that
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  point.
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  The left is unwilling so far to really,
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  really, really confront that as well as
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  their own corporate side. And I have
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  great trepidation for what that might
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  mean if they get back to power and then
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  in the 20 26 elections, for example, and
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  then fail to meaningfully use it and
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  they didn't really distance themselves
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  from Israel and then here comes the
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  Groper wave.
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  I worry about that a lot.