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Trump Still Isn’t Done With E. Jean Carroll | Luke Thomas Gets Political · Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

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  Thoughts on the DOJ investigating Eugene
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  Carol? Yeah, you think that'll have a
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  chilling effect on assaults reported or
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  be looked at as an isolated Trump thing?
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  Also, thoughts on Telerico versus
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  Paxton. Um,
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  Telerico should win that one because
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  Paxton is like the worst candidate
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  imaginable.
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  Paxton is corrupt in ways. I mean, the
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  guy is a philanderer,
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  selfdealer.
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  I mean, arguably a criminal. He is the
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  absol he he he is truly if you're voting
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  for Paxton, you're voting on a
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  pro-corruption agenda. Straight up.
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  Like, it's not there's not even another
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  way to look at that. And I've seen what
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  some people say being like, "Well, I
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  really disagree with Terico." Dude, I
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  you ask me like what would conditions I
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  would vote for Republican. If the if the
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  roles were reversed, maybe I maybe I
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  would sit it out, but if the roles were
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  reversed and I had to vote for someone,
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  you cannot put into power the
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  procorruption party under any
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  circumstance or the procrion candidate.
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  And Paxton is the procorruption
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  candidate. Straight up. That is what has
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  powered his career. And you don't have
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  to take my word for it. The his own
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  [ __ ] party
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  charged him with it. His own party in
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  Texas charged him with it. I mean, just
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  listen to the other Republicans in the
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  state. Don't take my word for it. What
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  was the other part of the question? Oh,
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  on Eugene Carol. Yeah, dude. The Todd
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  Blanch and the Department of Justice.
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  Um, all all they that he needs to be
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  disbarred and if and when this ever
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  comes to an end, he needs to be charged.
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  The Department of Justice has been
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  decimated. It's lost
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  25% of the lawyers who were running it.
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  And the ones who are left are running
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  kangaroo court kakome [ __ ] schemes
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  that luckily now can't hold up. There is
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  a um there is a there's a uh I think
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  it's the Gothberg Institute of Sweden.
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  It could be another one. They run this
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  they've been running it since 1950.
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  They've been running they they keep
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  track of all democracies worldwide. All
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  democracies,
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  US, France, Australia, the whole nine
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  yards. And then they grade them over
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  time. This has been going on since 1950.
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  You've never heard of it until recently.
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  What was the name? I you know what was
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  the name of it? I want to get the name.
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  I've been reading the study that they
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  put out. They put out one every year and
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  the last one made a big difference.
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  It is
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  here we go.
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  Uh VM
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  V-dem institute. It's from Sweden.
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  And what they write in the most recent
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  report is that for any democracy,
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  for any year,
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  any year, any democracy since 1950, we
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  lost 18 points in our measurement.
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  That's the most by any democracy on
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  record since 1950 in a single year. Now,
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  Hungary had fallen further, but it took
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  an incremental amount of time to do it.
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  The precipitous drop. And what they note
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  in that report is two things have
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  actually saved the USA in terms of it
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  could have dropped even further. One was
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  that election integrity seemed to hold
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  up for the most part from what they
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  could tell and that the federal courts
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  and that the Supreme Court while in
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  certain cases um bending to
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  authoritarian will nevertheless put up
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  enough resistance. Again, it's not about
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  just like oh we're doing the president's
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  say or we're not doing the president's
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  say. It's about whether or not you're
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  upholding exist existing constitutional
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  law
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  and and and and to what extent you're
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  resisting pressures from the exe from
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  another branch of government to to do
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  that like you have independent stake in
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  the game. What they were pointing to was
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  the courts and then the elections in the
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  United States have still hold up pretty
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  well. But what they also cautioned in
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  the report is those are going to be the
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  next battle lines. They're going to go
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  after those next is election integrity
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  and then the court systems generally.
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  And if you actually look at what like
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  Boule has done in El Salvador and and
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  you can there's a number of different
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  ways you could pick it. Rearranging the
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  laws or changing the laws to undermine
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  what the courts could do to say nothing
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  of the election integrity in any of
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  those various places. They're going to
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  go after those next. Um if any if and
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  when any of this comes to an end, all of
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  those lawyers need to be disbarred and
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  they all need to be prosecuted. Period.
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  the the Department of Justice, it
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  doesn't have any credibility anymore at
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  this point, but now it's got even it's
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  got it's got negative aura like going at
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  I mean this also this is why women like
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  don't go this is why women don't go
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  after their accusers. She won handily in
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  court. Nikita Han wins handily in court.
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  And now look at Connor. He sells out
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  T-Mobile. He's about to be returned and
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  celebrated. That's going to be a big
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  deal. And here is Trump. He loses to her
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  terribly because the evidence in that
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  case was very strong and now he's just
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  going after her because he wants to go
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  after his political enemies and the
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  Department of Justice is now his
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  personal law firm. Dreading the leadup
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  to the White House card. I'm not. It'll
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  be conservative media heads acting like
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  they know about UFC. Oh, that'll
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  definitely happen. How do you think the
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  leadup will be? And do you think they'll
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  get a sizable amount of new fans? I
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  don't know if they're going to get a lot
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  of new fans. I mean, they're going to do
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  a huge viewership number to be clear.
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  It's going to be massive. Like massive
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  ma they, you know, will they beat 17
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  million? I don't I don't know how that's
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  going to go. I don't I don't know. But
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  they'll do a big [ __ ] number. Like I
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  know that they'll be happy in the end
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  because again, you're getting MMA media,
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  sports media, political media. There's
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  nothing UFC could bas basically that
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  they could do that could generate that
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  kind of hype. It just doesn't exist.
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  That they're getting juiced by the power
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  of the federal government. like what
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  what other thing could they do to get
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  that kind of juice? I don't I don't even
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  know what that would be. Again, there's
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  probably within the current roster
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  anyway.
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  Um
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  the left-wing people are completely
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  turned off by it. I think centrists,
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  it's probably a mix. Many of them
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  probably don't care. And then obviously
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  the right probably is very very happy
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  about it. As you can imagine, it would
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  mix in those different directions. Um, I
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  just think you like the UFC is just
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  making a fundamentally different pitch
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  to audiences now. It's not an he I know
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  Dana is getting out there now and he's
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  saying, "Oh yeah, we don't care if
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  you're far left or you're far right."
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  But no one believes this. Like nobody
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  [ __ ] believes this. I don't know what
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  Dana's personal politics are, but it
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  hardly matters if you give Trump
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  a laundering service after January 6. If
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  you give him the kinds of political
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  rallies which are his events turned
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  into, right, he gets his own entrance
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  music, he gets his own entrance,
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  commentators are talking him up,
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  fighters are talking him up, he's
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  constantly on camera crowd during that
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  time anyway is going [ __ ] berserk for
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  him. If you were a political campaign,
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  where could you spend money to replicate
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  that? You could say, "Oh, your own
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  political rallies." But that's not the
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  point. This is ostensibly
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  all those people are there not even
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  necessarily to see him. They're
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  ostensibly there just to watch the
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  fights. This is the added bonus. So I'm
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  saying among a crowd of people that
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  could be if not converted convert the
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  viewers at home, right? This this this
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  this profound
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  magnification and glorification. Where
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  could he go to spend money to get that?
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  And the answer is nowhere. And they did
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  this over and over and over and over and
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  over and over again. And it has
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  alienated people who think like me for
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  the most part. It has brought in a new
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  class of people who either don't care or
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  are sympathetic to it. It has changed
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  the composition of the fan base. It has
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  changed the composition of the sport. So
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  like if you bring in new people who
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  aren't like that, they're going to
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  figure out real [ __ ] quickly that
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  this is not the sport for them. to say
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  nothing of what has essentially amounted
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  to a pro-slur
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  speech policy that the UFC has
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  instituted which they then use to then
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  sell the fights. For ordinary sports
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  fans, this is going to be largely
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  untenable. For a certain kind of fight
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  fan, it's going to be great. And again,
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  you don't have to have all the sports
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  fans in the world either. Like you don't
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  need all of them, but like this is what
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  I mean. Look, UFC is going to have a big
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  summer. This White House card is going
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  to be big. Conor's return should be big.
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  uh Islam fighting. I don't know if it's
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  going to be huge, but like that's a big
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  deal when the number one pound-for-pound
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  guy in the sport competes. These are all
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  big summer, I think, at a bare minimum.
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  Um, but there are now structural and
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  fabric changes to who is in the sport
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  that are going to make attracting and
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  then retaining uh the kinds of fans who
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  aren't already part of this a much more
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  difficult proposition than say 2015 when
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  Ronda is bringing all these young women
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  to the sport. It's just not that's just
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  not the way the UFC runs. They're
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  they're trying to go out there and
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  they're trying to tell the world, hey,
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  this is a sport for everybody. It's not.
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  It's absolutely not. That is so [ __ ]
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  not true. And you don't have to take my
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  word for it. People just who who who
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  don't who again who are not
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  automatically sympathetic to that
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  ideology, they're e they've either left
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  or they're in the process of leaving.